{"id":2097,"date":"2020-10-09T06:21:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T10:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2020-10-14T07:05:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T11:05:27","slug":"ledger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2097","title":{"rendered":"Ledger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A busted billionaire out on the ledge<br \/>\nhas drawn a crowd below; some holler, &#8220;Jump&#8221;.<br \/>\nFor several hours now, he&#8217;s been on edge.<br \/>\nThe tower he has climbed is branded &#8220;Trump.&#8221;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s one of many buildings that he owns.<br \/>\nAll his claims of glory deal with money.<br \/>\nBut now he has to pay off monster loans<br \/>\nfrom people who don&#8217;t think his act is funny.<br \/>\nThe Russians clearly have him in their sights.<br \/>\nRecords show the Chinese will soon follow.<br \/>\nThe Saudis; lordy, he&#8217;s stretched very thin.<br \/>\nThis pressure&#8217;s getting very hard to swallow.<br \/>\nHis pleas for help from lawyers, thugs and God,<br \/>\nthough blatant, have lately just gone unheeded.<br \/>\nNow he&#8217;s sick and whacked on steroid drugs,<br \/>\na mark who can&#8217;t pay up, no longer needed.<br \/>\nBut he&#8217;s a coward and will crawl on back<br \/>\ninto the waiting arms of dreaded Feds.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll rant and rave, insisting he is brave,<br \/>\nand blame his woes and troubles on the meds.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll confess to crimes, name many names.<br \/>\nAt this point he knows that he needs protection.<br \/>\nAbandoning his palace dipped in gold,<br \/>\nhe&#8217;ll head off to a big house of correction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busted billionaire out on the ledge has drawn a crowd below; some holler, &#8220;Jump&#8221;. For several hours now, he&#8217;s been on edge. The tower he has climbed is branded &#8220;Trump.&#8221; It&#8217;s one of many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2097\">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-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1680,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1680","url_meta":{"origin":2097,"position":0},"title":"Emperor&#8217;s Nu Close","author":"Rick Young","date":"March 31, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Death toll now tops nine-eleven. Settin' up spare cots in heaven. Good thing Trump kept numbers down. He should wear a golden crown. Maybe a red cape velour, on each arm a gorgeous whore. On a pulpit made of gold. He's not fat. He's not old. Lies ! Lies !\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1535,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1535","url_meta":{"origin":2097,"position":1},"title":"His Due","author":"Rick Young","date":"January 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Satan sleeps down by my feet. I think he likes the smell. When not awake, he's pretty sweet. But roused, he's really hell. Get up and sin, get up and kill, he'll shout throughout the house. I tell him to shut up and chill. I couldn't hurt a mouse. 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