Show threadStafford GregoireFeb 16
Emotions are like my resentments
Conjured out of imaginations
Immaterial timeless enchantments
(Endless self serving qualifications)
#SelfieSonnet?
#SelfiePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
#ObituaryPoem
#VickiAbt
#odaat
@Oprah
Stafford GregoireFeb 15
All people only have today
& most of us fail to enjoy their lives
Primping & preening their public display
(In experience humanity thrives)
#SelfiePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
#ObituaryPoem
#VickiAbt
@Oprah
#odaat
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/arts/television/vicki-abt-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MVA.5QlV.Pjhld_JWlbzE&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 GregoireApr 6, 2025
“Theodore McCarrick, [The] Cardinal
[Finally] Defrocked Over Sex Abuse,
Dies at 94[th Years Ordinal
(Sadly the institutional kills truth)]”
#HeadlinePoem
#ObituaryPoem
#Catholic
#SexAbuse
#TheodoreMcCarrick
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/theodore-mccarrick-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k4.X1_p.jxFWOuSKnmUJ&smid=bs-share
Theodore McCarrick, Cardinal Defrocked Over Sex Abuse, Dies at 94

He rose in the Roman Catholic Church before allegations of abusing minors and seminarians and an investigation led Pope Francis to strip him of his priesthood.

The New York Times
Stafford GregoireJun 23, 2024
Egotistical celebrities waste
& these merciless power-mongers
Would grind infinity to make some paste
These people ain’t justice’s defenders

#HeadlinePoem
#ObituaryPoem
#RoyCohnPoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/politics/donald-trump-roy-cohn.html
What Donald Trump Learned From Joseph McCarthy’s Right-Hand Man

Roy Cohn, the Red-baiting Senate adviser and fearsome lawyer, counseled a young Mr. Trump for many years, nurturing a style of bluster and smears.

The New York Times