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Keats-inspired sonnets
On Trumpty Dumpty and the Hill
the politics of dirty laundry seems to be never dead
when all huge missteps and mistakes are hung to dry
not hidden in political back rooms with hope they die
from network channels and social media to your head
Trumpty’s campaign used dirty laundry trying to lead
throughout this past summer and he’s not yet done
with his insults and lies that’s the way its being run
begun with the wall ended August in Mexico yes indeed
politics of pandering, pivoting, and power ceases never
even the Big Fail of Hillary and her endless email tale
with the Republicans desire to keep it going on forever
so into the last months of the POTUS election they sail
and it seems to most folks and voters in the general public
something has gone horribly wrong in our great republic
John Keat’s sonnet title (from 1816) 200 years ago: On The Grasshopper & Cricket.
Blue States and Red! White Stripes and Hypes
Blue states mostly on the East and West coast
wonder if a geopolitical proximity to salt water
changes a Republican son or a Democrat daughter
what’s the difference between a red and blue boast
Red states are mostly in the middle of the country
the mighty Mississippi and wide Missouri rivers
provide drainage for many Red states down to the
the Gulf of Mexico where they roll and flow
Green states don’t control any one state completely
Red and Blue states have multiple environmental concerns
unpolluted municipal water supplies begin to deplete
solar power rises there is an increase in wind turbines
all fifty states still have their boundaries but how great
will they be when Trumpty Dumpty changes their fate
Keats sonnet title: Blue! ’Tis The Life of Heaven, The Domain.
Joey “Pepe Baton” Connolly
Special to the Saipan Tribune
