#HeadlineSonnet
“Assata Shakur Dies: 78;
[A] Convicted Revolutionary
Found Refuge in Cuba[: Ending Debate
(About political justice binary)]”
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
#ObituaryPoem
#AssataShakur
#JoanneChesimard
For her part, Ms. Shakur regarded herself as “a 20th-century escaped slave.”
“[A] Nude Queens man indicted
For kicking bike riders, attacking
3 NYPD officers [sighted
(Our uncared for madmen are up stacking)
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
#MentalIllnes
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/17/nude-queens-man-indicted-for-kicking-bike-riders-attacking-3-nypd-officers/
& while the global great game is afoot
We just get to watch the wealthy frolic
Because to wealth, they have the door shut
(We, workers, are trampled & have colic)
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/business/china-stablecoin-trump.html
I weep for those who’ve traded their lives
For counterfeit Heaven dope derives
#HeadlineSonnet
#HeadlinePoem
#PhilosophySonnet
#AddictionSonnet
#SelfieSonnet
#couplet
#odaat
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/06/women-found-dead-on-boat-in-montauk-identified/
“Oregon Man Accused of Killing 3
Women Is Now Charged With Murdering Fourth
[We see the feeble behaving badly
(Thus our insanity follows its course)]”
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/jesse-calhoun-indicted-murder-oregon.html?smid=bs-share
We’ve become a society of skells
Bitter refugees, policing cheap Hells
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet
#Couplet
#Felons
#PerpWalk
So the lumpenproletariat
Often flattered as the laity
Ride a nature ending chariot
(Were caught in consumer insanity)
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet
A strange variation on brain eating
Where the monsters have tactical meetings
‘Law & Order’ terrorists leading
Jack Booted thugs without any feelings
#chthulhu
#hplovecraft
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet
Our contemporary society
Has been transformed into a zombie flick
Giving us a movie’s anxiety
(America’s production’s ’jumped the shark’)
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet?
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
America is evaporating
Into a cloud of selfish moisture
Religion's followers misunderstanding
(Secularity is in danger)
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
@NFL
#ParkAvenue
#cte
@walmart
#TraverseCity
*masculinity, Christianity, etc
@NFL @walmart
But Hark! one simple day in the future
The assailant was a few shades darker
Murderers, our land does seem to nurture
(With crazy motives somewhat murkier)
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
@NFL
#ParkAvenue
#cte
@walmart
#TraverseCity
The entitlement of the laziest
Who have been subsidized by whiteness*
Leads to the behavior craziest
(America’s snuffing out its brightness)
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
@walmart
#TraverseCity
*masculinity, Christianity, etc
Shenanigans & Skullduggery
Are the hallmarks of bureaucracy
#CoupletToAnUnwrittenSonnet
#SelfieSonnet?
#HeadlineSonnet?
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/26/nypd-chief-probed-for-allowing-on-duty-detective-to-care-for-cancer-stricken-mom/
We are plummeting to revolution
We live in a real •Tale of Two Cities•
What’s happening is no solution
(Goodness looks on & us pities)
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/nyregion/cuomo-mamdani-mayor-primary-nyc.html
We live in a period that will be
Known for carnal racist brutality
People have been led ignorantly
(Many prefer this stupidity)
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
#WWIII
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/world/asia/china-us-iran-credibility.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RE8.8e_i.xszk-4YTtez5&smid=url-share
“China Says the U.S. Damaged Its Own
Credibility Striking Iran
[The stupidity of machismo’s known
(The world is not run by the strong man)]”
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
#WWIII
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/world/asia/china-us-iran-credibility.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RE8.8e_i.xszk-4YTtez5&smid=url-share
We live in a world of barbarity
& the casual indifference
Of self righteousness’s cruelty
(Death is our species’ concordance)
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/21/world/iran-israel-trump?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk8.Jros.M5eCOn31tfbQ&smid=url-share
I wish car drivers were more honest
The real reason they drive is ‘cause of fear
(Or hatred) of other folks more modest
Racism & xenophobia’s there
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-public-transit-really-safer-than-driving/
“What We Know About a Passenger Plane Crash in Western India [that erased
The lives & dreams of humanity plain
(All Hope is temporarily placed)]”
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
#PhilosophyPoem
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/world/asia/india-plane-crash-what-to-know.html