Stafford GregoireFeb 20
Suddenly reality becomes
An inconvenient lethality
Physical inhumanity succumbs
(To our avarice’s banality)
#SelfiePoem
#HeadlinePoem
#SelfieSonnet?
#HeadlineSonnet?
Stafford GregoireJan 6
When China snatches up somebody else
& the world wrings their hands & beats their chests
Our stupidity will’ve lost its stealth
(Colonialism’s greed’s the West’s)
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
#EndOfEmpire
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/world/asia/venezuela-china-trump-taiwan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVA.YuJm.kfrERcHKRulM&smid=url-share
Stafford GregoireNov 16

#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/world/europe/uk-bbc-crisis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1k8.DxiI.scRYw4TG6MXl&smid=url-share

Stafford GregoireSep 27

“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.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/obituaries/assata-shakur-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pE8.EPnT.Pz9wmW4tPH-Y&smid=url-share

Assata Shakur Dies at 78; Convicted Revolutionary Found Refuge in Cuba

A member of a Black militant group, she was found guilty in the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper, escaped from prison and fled to Cuba, where she taught and wrote.

The New York Times
Stafford GregoireSep 18
“[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/
Stafford GregoireSep 6, 2025
& 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
Stafford GregoireAug 7, 2025
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/
Stafford GregoireAug 7, 2025
“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
Show threadStafford GregoireAug 2, 2025
We’ve become a society of skells
Bitter refugees, policing cheap Hells
#SelfiePoem 
#SelfieSonnet 
#HeadlinePoem 
#HeadlineSonnet 
#Couplet
#Felons
#PerpWalk
Show threadStafford GregoireAug 2, 2025
So the lumpenproletariat
Often flattered as the laity
Ride a nature ending chariot
(Were caught in consumer insanity)
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet