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A Condescending Conifer
A pompous pine lives down the road, a tree
So well aware of his own dignity;
I speak to him on evening walks, and he,
He nods a centimeter in courtesy
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The former address, "reactionary drivel," was a P. G. Wodehouse gag that few ever understood to be a mildly self-deprecating joke. Drivel, perhaps, but not reactionary. Neither the Red Caps nor the Reds ever got it.
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Dispatches from the Colonial Office
Lawrence's latest book, Dispatches from the Colonial Office, about teaching in a community college, is available, along with Coffee and a Dead Alligator to Go, Don't Forget Your Shoes and Grapes, Lady with a Dead Turtle, Paleo-Hippies at Work and Play, and The Road to Magdalena, from Amazon.com both as a Kindle and as bits of dead tree.
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- Vocations (a Russia series, 37) - poem
- Upon Seeing a Shrew Beneath an Oak Tree - poem
- News from Russia (a Russia series, 36) - poem
- Upper Respiratory Infection - a poem to accompany ...
- Thank You for Your Service - poem
- Saint Petersburg (a Russia series, 34) - poem
- A Lost Copy of The Brothers Karamazov (a Russia se...
- For a Young Friend Visiting Ireland - poem
- Weaponizing Teachers - poem
- Dostoyevsky's House of the Dead (a Russia series, ...
- The Sea-Road to Constantinople (a Russia series, 3...
- Desperate Trees along Interstate Ten - poem
- Billy Graham - a memorial
- Music Download on the Roof (a Russia series, 31) -...
- The Adult Debate About Safe Schools
- The Carter, the Convicts, and the Railway (a Russi...
- On Reading Crime and Punishment (a Russia Series, ...
- About Those Gossamer Wings... - poem
- Borodin's "On the Steppes of Central Asia" (a Russ...
- "Here be Dragons" - MePhone photo, 19 February 2018
- A Condescending Conifer - poem
- Teenagers (and some old guys!) Working Flood Rescu...
- Lenin's Ringtone (a Russia series, 27) - poem
- Lockdown Drill - poem
- Ornamental Pear Tree in Autumn - MePhone photo
- A Liturgy for the Emperor (a Russia series, 26) - ...
- A Card from the Home Office Upon the Occasion of a...
- A Shrew - MePhone photograph
- On Reading Doctor Zhivago (a Russia series, 25) - ...
- Astrid-the-Wonder-Dachshund II - MePhone photograph
- 4,000 More Light Casualties (a Russia series, 24) ...
- Pensees' for an Ash Wednesday - poem
- Astrid-the-Wonder-Dachshund, ca 10 weeks old - MeP...
- Article 58 (a Russia series, 23) - poem
- The First Lenten Penance - poem
- Machinery, Jefferson, Texas - photograph
- The Revolution is a Corpse (a Russia series, 22) -...
- Homage to Pascal - poem
- General Store, Jefferson, Texas - photograph
- Who was Stalin's Barber? (a Russia series, 21) - poem
- Beeler Bible Class, Methodist Church, Kirbyville, ...
- You Russian Poets (a Russia series, 20) - poem
- Napoleon and His Poached Egg - poem
- Softball Field at Night - photograph
- Sorting Out Russian Poetry (a Russia series, 19) -...
- Sunlit Alley with Bicycle, Jefferson, Texas - phot...
- Alexander Pushkin and the Poker-Playing Dogs (a Ru...
- Reading the Morning Newspaper at the Coffee Shop -...
- The Olympics and Cruella De Vil - column
- More Jolly Fat Confederates (re-enactors), Jeffers...
- Song of the Vulgar Boatmen (a Russia series, 17) -...
- Books and Art, Jefferson, Texas - photograph
- Civilization Requires a Little Effort (a Russia Se...
- "Sounds, and Sweet Airs..." - poem
- More Former People (a Russia series, 15)
- Jolly Fat Confederates (re-enactors, Jefferson, Te...
- The Natural Curiosity of Lot's Wife - poem
- Steeple, Methodist Church, Jefferson, Texas - an u...
- Former People (a Russian series, 14) - poem
- Jean Paul Sartre and Francis Thompson Walk into a ...
- Bar, Jefferson, Texas - photograph
- A Letter from Ekaterinburg (a Russia series, 13) -...
- "One of the Only" - poem
- Interior, Methodist Church, Jefferson, Texas - pho...
- Uncle Vanya and Lady Godiva (A Russia Series, 12)
- Little Bighorn - "U.S. Soldier...Fell Here..." - p...
- A Russian Series, 11: Strelnikov is still Wrong - ...
- Contents of that Secret F.B.I. Memo - poem (of a s...
- Sunflower - photo, Nikon J1 (a cheap plastic sprin...
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About This Not-Really Reactionary
- Lawrence Hall, HSG
- Y'r 'umble scrivener knows how to milk cows (altho' he long ago swore to own no livestock larger than dachshunds), build fences, clear brush, and cut firewood. After 18 months in Viet-Nam and Cambodia he worked his way through university as an ambulance driver, nurses' aide, and then LVN. BA in History, University of San Diego, 1976; MEd, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1984; MA in English, Stephen F. Austin State University, 2002. He also taught school, but that makes him a class (no pun) enemy just now. He has been rejected by some of the finest publishing houses in America.
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