Poetry by Joey Connolly
Shakespeare’s Sonnet #130
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head
I have seen roses damasked, red and white
But no such roses see I in her cheeks
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound.
I grant I never saw a goddess go
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
My Tax Returns Will Never See
(parody by Joey Connolly, 2018)
My tax returns will never see the light of day
I dread not rubles or ties with Russian red
my money stashed in Wall St. every which way
its whereabouts known only inside my head
I have rubles galore unmasked red and white
haven’t seen any in my accounts for months and weeks
I’ll have to have an oligarch over for drinks tonight
give him some old Trump vodka and see if he leaks
I’ll roll my rubles over in some small Swiss bourse
time to lay low stop contacting Russian oligarchs
now time for a few rounds on my Mar-a-Lago course
greenback leisure for us mighty plutocratic monarchs
Yes, my friend Vladimir Putin thinks my brain is ‘rare’
as usual only with himself does he dare to compare.
BIGLY BARBARIAN AT THE GATES OF CIVILIZATION
(Trump Preps Us For the US 250th Anniversary)
“I can’t imagine what this place would be — I can’t
imagine what the country would be — with Donald
Trump as our President.”
— US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
In the past few months he said the SCOTUS and
other Federal judges have “really hurt our country.”
Became the first known sitting President to attend
Supreme Court oral arguments in person.
Signed an Executive order that seeks to bar the
U.S. Postal Service from delivering ballots to voters
who the administration deems illegal.
Bombs the Pasteur Institute of Iran, a civilian century old
medical research center and vaccine production center.
“Schools, Hospitals, Medical factories, Places of learning
and healing are being reduced to rubble by a proudly
ignorant, incurious man who disdains learning, medical
science, or anything that can be considered cultured or
socially productive.” An Occupy Democrats online post on
Good Friday, April 03, 2026. And so POTUS 47 continues
his insanity, what I deem history books will be calling:
“2016 – 2026 A Decade of the Destruction of Democracy.”
Joey “Pepe Batbon” Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is the Poet Laureate of Tinian and enjoys stargazing.
