We have created an addict culture
Hooked on petrochemical ease
Where only the rich have any future
(Current modernity's only sleaze)
#HeadlinePoem
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet?
zirk.us/@JazzyKindaF...

Counterintuitively "counterfeit
Americans" are manufacturing
Some artificial patriotic
Cheap ¢onsumers for crucifying
#HeadlinePoem
@elonmusk
@pinkojoe

When I walk through the city of New York
I see addicts 1st hooked on fentanyl
Now their whole life is scoring the next hit
(Car culture faces this exact same ill!)
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
#Addiction

Iran: U.S. Scrambles to Ease Energy Crisis from Attacks www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Existence’s New York fickleness
Is the only time citizens matter
In this sprawling city limitless
Is when innocents blood doth splatter
#HeadlinePoem
#SafestCity
Thanks @nypd & @nycmayor

www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/21/m...

Suddenly reality becomes
An inconvenient lethality
Physical inhumanity succumbs
(To our avarice’s banality)
#SelfiePoem
#HeadlinePoem
#SelfieSonnet?
#HeadlineSonnet?

Pity those of us choosing hatred
Violence & other insanities
The society’s becoming vapid
For Social Media Vanities
#SelfiePoem
#philosophypoem
#headlinepoem
www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/14/o...

Perp Walk

New York needs to remove bottom feeders
By providing nuts with real assistance
Not the criminalizing stigmatizers
But something to give a better chance
#HeadlinePoem
#RentControl
#MentalHealth
#CloseRikers
www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/05/h...

“United States of America [Vain]
Attacked Boat [of people] With [an] Aircraft
That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
[(Countries ʇɐɥʇ obey the law are now daft)]”
#HeadlinePoem
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

“Oklahoma man target practicing
in backyard on Christmas kills [his] neighbor
[Death reminds us of Fate’s ultimate thing:
Our best thoughts often lead us to failure]”
#HeadlinePoem
#2ndAmendment
#oklahoma
#codyWadeAdams
#AlcoholWasInvolved

www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/28/o...

“‘Rage Bait,’ Which Describes [Some] Online Content 
Created to Make [Citizens] Mad, 
Is Oxford’s 2025 Word [Meant
To Be The Word] of the Year [Bad]” 
#HeadlinePoem
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...

“Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike
Could Be a[n Immoral] War Crime
[& That The Decent Can’t Do What They Like
(Good For The Venal Isn’t Sublime)]”
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
#ChristianNation
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

This ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than scientists thought. Now Earth’s biggest cities are at risk | BBC Science Focus Magazine Warming ocean waters are causing the world's biggest glacier to melt at an alarming rate.

I have ceased my donations of f•cks
I sit riding smugly judgmental
On my bicycle delivered by trucks
(Sanctimony is fundamental)
#HeadlinePoem
#GlobalWarming
#SanctimonyelfiePoem
www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth...

The microscopic detail of cities
Involve a mixture of joy & pathos
Souls we celebrate & life pities
(Humanity is its own albatross)
#headlinepoem
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/22/h...

“[A] Nonprofit boss from New Jersey
[Is] accused of coercing [Free] sex
[From] women battling addiction [see:
Toxic Masculinity Life Wrecks]”
#HeadlinePoem
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/20/n...

Bronx man ‘just bugged out,’ killing friend after drinking, smoking K2, survivor says A night of three friends hanging out together inside a Bronx apartment abruptly turned into a bloodbath as two men were stabbed, one fatally, the surviving victim told the Daily News.

Simplicity’s sick companionship
Resistance to ideas reduces
Letting us into stupidity slip
(Making room for our dumb impulses)
#HeadlinePoem
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/15/b...

#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...

The world is filled up with misfortune
& some people can no longer accept
Favoritism’s injustices’ tune
(Modernity is making us decrep’t)
#HeadlinePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
#SadnessPoem
nypost.com/2025/11/11/u...

Human individuality
Is quickly being decimated
By technologies’ stupidity
(Souls cannot live whilst screens pervaded)
#SelfiePoem
#HeadlinePoem

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

Our president’s making a mockery
Of America’s judiciary
Highlighting how law is arbitrary
(Mostly for reasons fiduciary)
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Suspect arrested in cold case rape, murder of 16-year-old L.I. girl Richard Bilodeau, 63, has been arrested and charged with killing Theresa Fusco in Nassau County in 1984.

3 men spent 60 years in a prison
Because some cops bullied them to lie
Persecutors saw this as a vision
(Neither Cops nor Lawyers will justice spy)
#HeadlinePoem
@suffolkpd
@suffolkdistictattourny
www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/15/t...

We are plumbing suicide’s bottom
Self immolation is better
Than an AR-15 at schools rotten
(By mass-produced egos we’re fettered)
#SuicidePoem
#HeadlinePoem
#PhilosophyPoem
www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/23/m...

“[A] Nude Queens man indicted
For kicking bike riders, attacking
3 NYPD officers [sighted
(Our uncared for madmen are up stacking)
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
#MentalIllnes
www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/17/n...

“[Rich Whites can be] Unhappy on Wall Street,
[Although] Fulfilled as a Paramedic
[(Because some for society needs meet
¢A$h can make everyone coepasthetic)]

#HeadlinePoem
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n...

& 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?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/b...

Deadly stabbing in Harlem turns stoop where family had long gathered into killing field A rivalry ended in the fatal stabbing of a Harlem man on the stoop pf a Harlem building where his family had congregated and played for three generations, multiple family members told the Daily New…

Evérybody matters today
Some people have their praises sung
Others will be remembered in dismay
(The fourth estate on life sad headlines hung)
#HeadlinePoem
#SelfiePoem
#RIP
#MaxmillionWithers
www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/29/u...

Wannabe MS-13 member gets 45 years in brutal Queens killing as judge blasts defense lawyer A wannabe MS-13 member who used his girlfriend to lure a 17-year-old boy to his death in Queens got 45 years behind bars Tuesday, after a judge savaged his lawyer’s argument that he was the &…

In reality society needs
Communal approval from other souls
& in modernity’s madness we do deeds
(That fulfill our leaders’ madness’s goals)
#HeadlinePoem
@gop
www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/26/w...

“Researchers have long called attention to
The serious methodological
And ethical defects in … work [untrue
The rich have become scatological]”
#HeadlinePoem
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“[The] Trump Administration Discusses
Taking [A] 10% Stake in Intel
[This corporate welfare distresses
America into a unique Hell]”
#HeadlinePoem
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/t...

I weep for those who’ve traded their lives
For counterfeit Heaven dope derives
#HeadlineSonnet
#HeadlinePoem
#PhilosophySonnet
#AddictionSonnet
#SelfieSonnet
#couplet
#odaat
www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/06/w...

“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?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/u...