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.

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

We've Always Sailed Among the Stars - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com We’ve Always Sailed Among the Stars We’ve always sailed among the stars, for they Do swim around us ...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Quick - What's the First Line of the Chinese National Anthem? - column

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Quick – What’s the First Line of the Chinese National Anthem? In Grand Prairie a minor league basebal...

One Mustn't Keep a Sensitive Executioner Waiting - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com One Mustn’t Keep a Sensitive Executioner Waiting “You are your own god – and are surprised when you...
Sunday, July 29, 2018

A White Tee Shirt and a Pack of Camels - peom

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A White Tee Shirt and a Pack of Camels A white tee shirt with a pack of Camels Tucked up ‘way cool i...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

We Are All Reptilian - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com We Are All Reptilian We’re all reptilian; our skins slough free Each hour, a few epidermal cells cl...
Friday, July 27, 2018

This is the Last Straw! And Some Inspirational Singer-Songwriters... - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com This is the Last Straw – and Something About Sacred Buckets of Holistic Ice Water Sexual predators,...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

A Straw Man Accessorized with Exclamation Marks from the Eighth Grade - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Straw Man Accessorized with Exclamation Marks from the Eighth Grade  (Rainbow Brite™ © Glitter Opti...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

It's Not a Bad Cell, But it is a Cell - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com It’s Not a Bad Cell, But it is a Cell           If…           Some Crown of sorrows sit           U...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

On the Resignation of the Executive Director of a Certain Veterans' Service Organization - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com On the Resignation of the Executive Director of a Certain Veterans’ Service Organization Our leader...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Saint Gregory of Nyssa Orders a Cup of Coffee in Constantinople - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Saint Gregory of Nyssa Orders a Cup of Coffee The whole city is full of it – in the squares, The cof...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

The Dangers of Smoking after Heaving the Dead into a Helicopter - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Dangers of Smoking from an idea by Sheila Sharpe In the foul heat and damp and rot and stench...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

M. Poncy Hector-Tworbst, B.A., M.Ed., Ph.D. Candidate, Speaks - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com On the Packing of Intersectionality: A Cross-Cultural Study By M. Poncy Hector-Tworbst, B.A., M.Ed...
Friday, July 20, 2018

A Summer Afternoon at 209 East Huisache Avenue - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Summer Afternoon at 209 East Huisache Avenue Kingsville, Texas, 1955 A loaf of bread from the P...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Two Middle-Aged Youth Ministers in a Convertible - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Two Middle-Aged Youth Ministers in a Convertible Two middle-aged youth ministers (perhaps) In a con...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Syllabus for a Summer Day - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Syllabus for a Summer Day Awaken with the sun, and while thin mist Slinks eerily across the fields,...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Provide Yourself with Words - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Provide Yourself with Words Tollite vobiscum verba, et convertimini ad Dominum -Osee 14:3 1 P...
Monday, July 16, 2018

If You Don't Have a Guitar, Are You Permitted to Pose for Publicity Photos on a Railway Line? - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com An Existential Issue for Many Writers: If You Don’t Have a Guitar, Are You Permitted to Pose for Publ...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

Of That Ilk (or, perhaps, Ilk Hunting) - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Of That Ilk For three Voices First Voice: What is an ilk? Second Voice: Well, they got ‘em u...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

Robin Hood's Favorite Saint - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Farmer to Saint Swithin O good Saint Swithin, please, to you we pray, On this your high-summer r...
Friday, July 13, 2018

Dici ei Pilatus: Quid est Veritas? - poem

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Dicit ei Pilatus: Quid est Veritas? Pontius Pilate was probably being flippant When he asked of a prisoner, “What is truth?” But he wa...
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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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