Monday, January 30, 2017

The Pump Trumps Trump - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com The Pump Trumps Trump Enough about the president. Let us discuss adventures in buying gasoline alon...

Cats are Iambic Pentameter - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Cats are Iambic Pentameter Light-footed cats are nature’s iambics Each subtle feline step unstressed...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Office of Quality Enhancement and Innovation - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Office of Quality Enhancement and Innovation The institution is committed to ongoing, integrated, an...

Empdocles in Etna - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Empedocles in Etna Empedocles – he taught There’s nothing beyond death; In trimeter he wrought U...

Matthew Arnold's Merope - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Matthew Arnold’s Merope If she had swung that axe, our Merope, Her son Aepytus would be dead, you se...

Some Year's Day - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Some Year’s Day What century is it outside? -Boris Pasternak It’s a fair question: what centu...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Parthian Thoughts from the InauGRRRRRation - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Parthian Thoughts from the InauGRRRRRation Lawless day-riders, channeling the Ku Klux Klan in masks ...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Presidential Inauguration Edition - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Presidential Inauguration Edition Consider this possibility: at the precise and somewhat tense momen...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Where's Waldo's Pickup Truck? - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Where’s Waldo’s Pickup Truck? Hey, kids! Forget that omnivorous dog – the excuse now is that the Ru...
Friday, January 6, 2017

"Until the First Star" - Orthodox Christmas Eve

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com “Until the First Star” – Orthodox Christmas Eve The first star won’t be seen this night. The clouds ...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

Wouldn't You Like to Die in My Beautiful Balloon? - column

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Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Wouldn’t You Like to Die in my Beautiful Balloon? Last month, on 19 December, the real presiden...

The McDonald's Around the Corner from the Vatican - poem

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What Would Chaucer’s Pardoner Say? Someone has opened a McDonald’s there Around the corner from Saint Peter’s Square And this has dist...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Good King Wenceslas and His Friends - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Good King Wenceslas and His Friends There is far more to the days after Christmas Day than digestio...
Monday, December 26, 2016

Christmas Morning - Some Dissembling Required

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Christmas Morning – Some Dissembling Required Does the quiet magic disappear at dawn? The Star, the ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

What Went ye into the Desert too See? - poem

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What Went ye into the Desert to See? What went ye into the desert to see? A pale liturgist swaying in the wind? A theologian dressed in...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Winter Solstice - The Year's Compline - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Winter Solstice – The Year’s Compline The winter solstice is the year withdrawing From all the busy...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Pilgrimage Along the A1 - Saint Michael's in Chesterton - poem

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Pilgrimage Along the A1 - Saint Michael's in Chesterton For all DeBeauvilles, Beauvilles, Bevilles, and Bevils Everywhere From ...
Friday, December 16, 2016

Millennials at Work and War - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Millennials at Work and War Scorn not the snowflake who stands watch for us Now thrown into the exi...

The House of Winds - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The House of Winds The House of Winds can be accessed with this: A work-order from Aeolus time-stamp...

Happy, Happy Christmas - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Happy, Happy Christmas           Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of o...