Lawrence Hall

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.

Sunday, August 14, 2016

The Weather Channel - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Weather Channel Turn around don’t drown we’re not out of the woods yet don’t let your guard down ...
Saturday, August 13, 2016

Turkey with Stuffing - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Turkey with Stuffing Get stuff get stuff everybody get stuff More stuff more stuff never can get enou...
Friday, August 12, 2016

Kirbyville - The Santa Fe Depot - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Kirbyville - The Santa Fe Depot I loved to sit and watch the trains go by As they blew smoke and stea...

Mimosa Pods - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Mimosa Pods Mimosa pods hang heavily in the heat Like lurking green and yellow slithery snakes Just ...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

A January Tale - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com A January Tale All pines are gothic in the winter woods Cold pillars in a temple grim and cold Their...

Tyrannosaurus Texaco - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Tyrannosaurus Texaco A dinosaur that doesn’t know it’s dead Still thinks it’s eating swamp grass fres...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Weaving a Tapestry of Designer Alligators - column, 8.7.16

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Weaving a Tapestry of Designer Alligators Is there a rule requiring all book reviewers to employ the ...

A Novitiate in the World - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com A Novitiate in the World “…you will go forth from these walls, but will live like a monk in the world...
Thursday, August 4, 2016

Medical Waste in Texas - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Medical Waste in Texas Children are diminutive creatures who Tease the dog Pull the c...

S.T.E.M. - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com S.T.E.M. A Crucifix once stood in the village square Around it centuries grew old; it blessed Genera...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Forwarding Address - poems

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Forwarding Address For Kathleen and Luther Lee Dockery, of Happy Memory A funeral is a study in awk...

It's All About Family - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com It’s All About Family A rush to change into trousers and shirt Discarding pajamas and morning quiet ...

Resistant to Change - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Resistant to Change But what change would that be? A fallen oak A leafy country lane paved into progr...
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...
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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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