Thursday, June 30, 2016

Poetry is Not - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Poetry is Not Poetry is not The unacknowledged legislation1 of Anything Poetry is a forest foo...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Come Laughing Home at Twilight - Beaumont Hamel, 1916

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Come Laughing Home at Twilight Beaumont-Hamel, 1916 And, O! Wasn’t he just the Jack the Lad, A’...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Smoking is Bad for Your Feet - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Smoking is Bad for Your Feet In childhood our parents often cautioned us against any sort of force...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Calendars, Alligators, and Hipsters - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Calendars, Alligators, and Hipsters How curious that according to the mechanistic Gregorian calend...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Watch List - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Watch List Bulova, Caravelle, and Hamilton Gaudy Rolex and sturdy Omega Humble Timex and Comrade ...

Summer solstice - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Summer Solstice Apollo seems to pause his passages His constant celestial orbitings And gaze upon ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

No-Fly List - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com No-Fly List The ostrich cannot fly; the emu’s still The penguin waddles on his icy hill The kiwi ...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Icarus, Dude! - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Icarus, Dude! Young Icarus worked late in his stable Laying out feathers on an old table A dreamer...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Safety Deposit Box - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Safety Deposit Box A safety deposit box is but a grave Of bits of paper connecting the dead With ...

A Fog of Unknowing - 13 June 2016 - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com A Fog of Unknowing - 13 June 2016 If fifty lives were ended yesterday How can anyone know that thi...

Not Listening to The Voices - a three-dot column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Not Listening to The Voices A famous American brand of acrid, yellow-tinted fizzy water containing ...

Discharge Papers - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Discharge Papers Now trudging up the creaky courthouse steps He ran and skipped up forty years ago...

The Romance of Foreign Postage Computerized Printouts - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Romance of Foreign Postage Computerized Printouts Where are the postage stamps of yesteryear; ...

The Gardener - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Gardener Unnoticed are the gardeners and the gods Mary Magdalene mistook one for the Other Th...

A Saturday Morning Wall-Eyed Hissy-Fit - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com A Saturday Morning Wall-Eyed Hissy-Fit On a rainy Saturday morning, two cats For reasons known to ...

Beneath the Dome - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Beneath the Dome A coven of wispy wraiths squatting on the floor Of a ruined temple built by bett...

Dozing in a Lawn Chair - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dozing in a Lawn Chair Cicadas sing the evening heat and damp Amid the sinister sweet scents of ni...

No Way, Shape, or Bombshell, Actually - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com No Way, Shape, or Bombshell, Actually No way, shape, and form literally dropped A bombshell to the...

The Invention of the Pencil - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Invention of the Pencil We lay our scene in a monastic scriptorium in Cumbria “Somehow I can’t...

A Picture Post-Card of Notre-Dame de Amiens at Dawn - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com A Picture Post-Card of Notre-Dame de Amiens at Dawn For Doris and Anthony I. Merci, mes amis, fo...