Friday, October 7, 2011

Death of an Ikonic Visionary (or is that Visionary Ikon?)

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Death of a Visionary The death of a visionary is often an occasion for labeling the man an ikon, as if ...
Monday, October 3, 2011

"A Barrow Piled With Books"

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Over the way is a barrow piled with books. A lean young man picks them over eagerly. A working lad: a hungry-looking young man. He counts ou...
Sunday, October 2, 2011

Ashes to Bambi and Dust to Rocky the Flying Squirrel

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Ashes to Bambi and Dust to Rocky the Flying Squirrel “Do we all holy rites. / Let there be sung ‘Non Nobis’...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

TeleCheck and Tractor Supply Company -- Not Professional

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I have shopped at The Tractor Supply Company in Beaumont for years.  If you can avoid the junkier made-in-China stuff, TSC features some goo...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Leaf-Time

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Mack Hall, HSG Leaf-Time O may our lives close like a leaf that falls And laughs in falling at its happy end Air-dancing down a sky of...

A Bed-and-Breakfast...

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A bed-and-breakfast is what a brothel becomes when it has lost all self-respect.
Sunday, September 18, 2011

The Death of the Medicare Sled

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Mack Hall, HSG The Death of the Medicare Sled On Friday the last Ford Crown Victoria was assembled and sold, ending the era of the big Am...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

When Writing About 9/11...

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When writing about 9/11, never miss an opportunity to avoid talking about yourself.  9/11 is not about you, where you were, your feelings, h...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

First Morning as a School Volunteer

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My Frist...First Day of School by Mack Hall, Esq. I woke up early. I took a bath. I ate some breakfast of toast and cheese and coffee. ...

The Russian Soldier, 1918

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Mack Hall, HSG   The Russian Soldier, 1918 The Russian soldier, Moskina 1 in hand, Though filthy, tired, unknown, unpaid, unfed, Fight...
Sunday, September 4, 2011

The Menace of Unregistered Piccolos

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Mack Hall, HSG The Menace of Unregistered Piccolos (In green accordance with the green Cliché’ Protection Act of 1904 as greenly amende...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Cellphonia in F Flat

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Mack Hall Cellphonia in F Flat A chamber piece for two sulks and a soda He yawns, his head propped up against a wall Of head-stained, h...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Passenger to Frankfurt, by Agatha Christie

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Passenger to Frankfurt Agatha Christie Agatha Christie Ltd: 1970 One of Miss Christie’s stand-alone (that is, not a Poirot or a Miss Mar...

THE WORLD OF SAINT PAUL, by Joseph M. Callewaert

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The World of Saint Paul Joseph M. Callewaert Ignatius Press: San Francisco. 2011 What an excellent book! Mr. Callewaert ‘s life of St. ...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Hurricane Season is Here -- Stock up on Filler Language

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com The height – or depth – of hurricane season is here, which means it’s time for us to review all the Wea...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Migratory Waterfowl

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Mack Hall Migratory Waterfowl Loud-quacking, honking, singing, winging, they, Beneath their wild-wind-beating wings rise up From the w...

Fuhrerbunker

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Mack Hall, HSG Fuhrerbunker Do not descend into that withering world Of pale self-pity dying in the depths, A ghost hugging resentment...

A Dairy Queen Waitress in Tuscany

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Mack Hall, HSG A Dairy Queen Waitress in Tuscany Eat, drink, pray, love, hamburger, shake, and fries Boyfriend, baby, trailer park, sad...
Friday, August 19, 2011

In Malignant Repose

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Mack Hall, HSG In Malignant Repose A plastic sphinx in malignant repose Perpetually admires its sered-soul self Echoing self-seeking i...

At the Sign of the Blue Boar

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Mack Hall, HSG At the Sign of the Blue Boar Under the oak tree, long ago, We lived with merry Robin Hood, Who taught us how to bend t...