Friday, November 30, 2018

That First Night in Viet-Nam - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com That First Night in Viet-Nam In the old French barracks, shelvings of cots No ventilation – that wa...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham - Still Frenemies after all These Years - column

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Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham – Still Frenemies after all These Years The latest Ro...

The Night Patrol - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Night Patrol Outside with the dogs for their night patrol A bright flashlight for fear of wild w...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

A Manifesto Against Manifestos (no "hey-hey, ho-ho," please)

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Manifesto Against Manifestos “You can silence me, but you can never convince me” -graffiti on ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Homage to Pascal - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Homage to Pascal For Thomas V. Morris and William J. Bennett In gratitude for a wonderful summer ...
Monday, November 26, 2018

The Natural Curiosity of Lot's Wife - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Natural Curiosity of Lot’s Wife When Lot’s wife shook with Anger or fear, and looked back - Wha...
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Love and the Sunday Funnies - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Love and the Sunday Funnies We will not turn on the radio today We will repudiate its veto over us ...
Saturday, November 24, 2018

A Child Whispers to Himself - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Child Whispers to Himself Someday I will wake up in the morning And not be wrong Someday I will l...
Friday, November 23, 2018

Wristwatches on a Refectory Table - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Wristwatches on a Refectory Table “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” -Thoreau Some ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

A Good, Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving with the Family and the Relatives Who Just Won't Go Away - rhyming nonsense

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A Good, Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving with the Family and the Relatives Who Just Won’t Go Away The dead-bolts on the interior doors Aga...

For our Mothers and Grandmothers on Thanksgiving - weekly column

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Our Grandmothers’ Litany of Gratitude In the run-up to Thanksgiving and then Christmas men and boys w...

Donald J. Trump's Draft Notice - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Donald J. Trump’s Draft Notice A Citizen of the United States To: Donald J. Trump Greeting: You...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

The Pocket Knife of Damocles - doggerel

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Lawrence Hall, HSG mhall45184@aol.com The Pocket Knife of Damocles Every morning good Damocles wakes up And after breakfast from a dr...
Monday, November 19, 2018

Community PEAVEY Wide PEAVEY Thanksgiving PEAVEY Service - a poem with booms and bangs

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Community PEAVEY Wide PEAVEY Thanksgiving PEAVEY Service Prelude PEAVEY you give PEAVEY the splend...
Sunday, November 18, 2018

Premediated Amnesia - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Premeditated Amnesia 1 For nothing here is old, save for deep layers Of moss and muck and mouldering...
Saturday, November 17, 2018

Don't You Dare Judge Me While I'm Judging You! - a poem (of sorts)

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Don’t You Dare Judge Me While I’m Judging You! Don’t you judge me while I am judging you For judging...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Three Chords and a Meth Lab - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Three Chords and a Meth Lab “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” Embroidered ...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

Self-Government is not a Video Game - column

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Self-Government is not a Video Game In a poorly-written article featuring cluttered sentence structur...

Outside McDonald's: Sweeper, Man Your Broom - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Outside McDonald’s: Sweeper, Man Your Broom And so he sweeps, against the blustery winds That blow h...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Simon and Schuster and Their Explosive Brit - a frivolity featuring awkward rhymes

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Simon & Schuster and Their Explosive Brit “Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison’s explosive Brit ...