by Catherine Giordano
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| The front page of the Orlando Sentinel |
The horror.
The outrage.
The grief.
The worst mass shooting
in American history.
A heinous act of brutality.
A massacre of 50 souls.
The wounding of dozens more.
A community in mourning.
Coming together,
To honor and remember the dead,
To comfort their families
Orlando
Uniting, Enduring,
in the midst of tragedy.
Orlando strong!
© Catherine Giordano
June 2012
Every now and then,
something so noteworthy happens that I feel compelled to make note of it with a
news print poem. The terrorist attack on
a nightclub in Orlando, Florida in the early hours of Sunday morning (around 2 AM),
June 12, 2016 was that type of event. On the following Monday, The Orlando Sentinel printed a front page stand-alone
editorial which became the basis of this poem.
