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LITERARY NOOK
ten years ago today
By JOEY ‘PEPE BATBON’ CONNOLLY
Special to the Saipan Tribune
well the last three days of September are here
October honors saints and souls of the dead
lets see what the last headlines of September said
as the autumnal month of October draws near
09/28/2004
No. Korean minister says danger of war ” is snowballing”
their threat to use nuclear arms is truly appalling
No. Korea says So. Korea’s nuke experiments are a ” big stumbling block”
that No. Korea may have thousands of nukes is really a shock
09/29/2004
kidnappers released two Italian female workers and five others
bringing relief to their families, fathers, brothers, sisters, and mothers
more than 140 foreigners in Iraq have been kidnapped to this day
at least 26 have been killed including two Americans newspapers say
09/30/2004
well readers i’m stopping the rhyme
will try again some other time
for now guess i’ve had enough
of all this sad and bad news stuff
Sources for the news headlines reported in this month long series of daily quatrains were major network websites, online newspapers including the Mainichi Shimbun in Japan, the International version of the Herald Tribune and daily copies of the Saipan Tribune AP articles. Nature dealt the CNMI some heavy blows from August to October 2004. We got hit by three major typhoons and other typhoons to a lesser degree. Power at my house in Koblerville was out for days at a time, then on and off sporadically. TV cable service was out for six weeks. I got depressed from all the bad weather news stories, the increasing carnage in Iraq, and the horror of hundreds of school children killed in the hostage crisis in Beslan, Ossetia (near Russia). Have you forgotten that news story already? Who would want to remember such a tragic news story? It was just too painful to search for rhymes about death, destruction and other tragedies, whether natural or man-made. I enjoy writing doggerel and humorous poetry. So I went back to that. More to come.
