{"id":1926,"date":"2020-07-23T14:24:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2020-07-27T13:31:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:31:24","slug":"extra-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1926","title":{"rendered":"Extra Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Person, woman, man, camera, t.v.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s the way to live successfully.&#8221;<br \/>\nHow do I know? My big test told me so.<br \/>\nWhat do I know? The law tells me gung ho.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got the brain to take down all these anarchists and thugs.<br \/>\nIt seems I&#8217;m coping better with my new dementia drugs.<br \/>\nI realize now my tie should not be hanging to my knees.<br \/>\nI wipe my nose with my face mask most every time I sneeze.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m getting COVID-tested at least several times a week.<br \/>\nAt least that&#8217;s what they tell me when they stick things up my beak.<br \/>\nThey say they don&#8217;t know how I keep all these things in my head.<br \/>\nI play them back whenever I get off in Lincoln&#8217;s bed.<br \/>\nWhen at the resolute desk, I&#8217;m the absolute king shit.<br \/>\nIf I should go, they&#8217;ll find my name carved several times in it.<br \/>\nThis two-term thing has a bad ring. I&#8217;ll sign in an extension.<br \/>\nMy royal family says elections suck, pay no attention.<br \/>\nLike F.D.R., I&#8217;ll be a czar, borne everywhere on litters.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll bring back sports and execute the kneelers and the quitters.<br \/>\nOur country will ally with Russia, with parades and pomp.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s my great dream to turn the whole damned world into the swamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Person, woman, man, camera, t.v.&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s the way to live successfully.&#8221; How do I know? My big test told me so. What do I know? The law tells me gung ho. I&#8217;ve got the brain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1926\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":641,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=641","url_meta":{"origin":1926,"position":0},"title":"Tweezer Lobotomy","author":"Rick Young","date":"January 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Brendan hucked up a golf ball he'd swallowed several years ago after his only hole-in-one. It was a point of honor, his threesome insisted. How was he to know they were insane? 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