Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Disoccidented - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Disoccidented A piece of patrimony popped up today: A scrap of Latin from the long ago Misplaced fro...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Bleak Friday - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com           Bleak Friday Advent, now more often called “The Christmas Season,” has crossed the frontier...

Supermoon - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com           Supermoon November’s moon is wonderfully bright tonight A supermoon - as if she could ever...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

I Attest That I Am - poem

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This week at work I received a Homeland Security form with a terse note that I had filled it out incorrectly - in 2003. But I had not fille...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

This Discussion Has Been Closed - poetry

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com This Discussion Has Been Closed Poetry Foundation Issues of gender race, identity Sexuality myth iden...

An Orderly Transfer of Pen and Telephone - column

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com An Orderly Transfer of Pen and Telephone One is saddened to hear of some few students at the Universi...
Saturday, November 5, 2016

Let's Go to the Pub and Get Bombed - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Let’s Go to the Pub and Get Bombed New York, 17 September 2016 Twenty-nine wounded, but nothing to fe...

Oh, Possum! - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Oh, Possum! or Marsupials in the Mist or Didelphimorphia Park Well, there you are, snarling behind ...

A Roman Poet - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com A Roman Poet He is not a Celt He is a Roman, his lines Formed in marching order

A Man, a Chair, a Book, a Dog - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com A Man, a Chair, a Book, a Dog A man sitting in a comfortable old chair Reading a book by the light of ...

The Spirit of the Age, and Stuff - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Spirit of the Age, and Stuff Republics are shabby in their bloody ends And so too in their bloody ...

Central Standard Dachshund Time - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Central Standard Dachshund Time Turn back the clock, but not a dachshund’s tail Since dog and tail wil...

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Don’t pop your pimples during the processional Or chew your gum before th...
Monday, October 31, 2016

An American Legion Meeting - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com An American Legion Meeting O let us sit, our coffee cups to hand And discharge half-remembered boot...
Saturday, October 29, 2016

Blame the Russians - a column about Rod McKuen

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Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Blame the Russians Your grandmother and I are the only two people who will admit that they like ...

Edgar Allan Errol Flynn Poe - column

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Edgar Allan Errol Flynn Poe Being part of the theatre department means being part of a family. A real...

Two Small and Legless Trunks of Electronic Devices - column

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Mack Hall, HSG, Mhall46184@aol.com Two Small and Legless Trunks of Electronic Devices This weekend my summer-new computer did the Aunt ...

The Adventures of Hibachi Fondue - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Adventures of Hibachi Fondue Brushed aluminum, S & R Green Stamps Tiki torches and instant P...

Bourgeois Sentimentality - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Bourgeois Sentimentality A beagle puppy napping on the hearth The morning offering whispered at dawn ...

Shepherding Winds - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Shepherding Winds “Once I lived all alone in an isolated hut near a Greek village, ‘shepherding winds’ ...