Sunday, July 31, 2016

Takeaways from the Political Klavens...um...Conventions - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Takeaways from the Political Conventions “Let us become servants in order to be leaders.” ― The Pr...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

High Summer - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com High Summer High summer is but headaches, haze, and heat Parasitical heat, malignant heat Heat cree...
Friday, July 22, 2016

The Cleveland Yellfest - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com The Cleveland Yellfest Roderick Spode: “Citizens…I say to you that nothing stands between us and our ...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

On the First Ballot - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com On the First Ballot Whose are these snarling faces, grown ugly in The primordial aggression of the p...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Iconophiles - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Iconophiles Iconophiles are true revolutionaries Lowering their voices but raising their hearts Fall...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Unintelligible Screaming - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Unintelligible Screaming Young conscripts posted to a midnight bridge They lean against an armored ca...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

Must There be a Balloon Drop? - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Must There be a Balloon Drop? Why do political conventions always feature balloon drops as the f...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Gently Used - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Gently Used Gently used clothing, and gently used shoes Gently used school supplies for charity G...

The Summer of 2016 - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Summer of 2016 1969 In Viet-Nam you looked around For even a stem of grass astray ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Alexandria in a Seabag - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Alexandria in a Seabag The barracks is a university So too the march, the camp, the line for cho...

What the EZine Reviewer Learned - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com What the EZine Reviewer Learned What I learned about the best cliché that You’ve never heard of Mot...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Saint Peter ad Vincula - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Saint Peter ad Vincula 1st chess player, moving a pawn: “En passant.” 2nd chess player: “Just dow...
Thursday, July 7, 2016

Make the Holy Roman Empire Great Again©™ - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Make the Holy Roman Empire Great Again©™ Are all of us but Guelphs and Ghibellines And sub-division...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Come on in; the Water's Slime - column, 3 July 2016

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Come on in; the Water’s Slime! Rio de Janeiro, that palmy and balmy romantic playground of old movies...

Summer Apples - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Summer Apples A summer apple is like love, you know Expected, hoped for, but still a surprise A myst...

80 by 8 and 90 by 9 - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com 80 by 8 and 90 by 9 Yeah, 80 by 8 and90 by 9 Humidity set to steam or stir-fry Accompanied by the m...

Ad Orientem - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Ad Orientem Let us now face the sun, and not ourselves And so forswear the mirrored loop of Us That...

Dependence Day - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dependence Day There cannot be an independence day Nor would the faithful want to be exiled: The fra...

Inactive Shooters - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Inactive Shooters If only there were inactive shooters And inactive shooting situations Cafes where ...

Live Your Dreams - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Live Your Dreams A girl, all pimples, pits, and piercings pores Over a lottery ticket bouquet Fast-f...