Thursday, January 31, 2019

Old People Yelling into Their MePhones at the Book Store - lines ripped from life

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Lawrence Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Old People Yelling into Their MePhones at the Book Store “YEAH!...YEAH!...I’M AT TH’ BARNES AND ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Creation and an Alarm Clock - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Creation and an Alarm Clock Dixitque Deus: Fiat lux. Et facta est lux. - Genesis 1:3 We call...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Amelia Earhart Has Been Found (Again) - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Amelia Earhart Has Been Found (Again) Amelia Earhart has been found again Steve Jobs is locked away ...
Monday, January 28, 2019

For a Friend Who Died in the Night - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Like an Autumn Leaf O may her life close like a leaf that falls And laughs in falling at its happy e...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

The Lovers of Cherbourg - poem

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Lawrence Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com The Lovers of Cherbourg In memory of Michel Legrand Young lovers have from time to time made...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Monastery Over the Garage: A Canticle for a Rented Room - poem

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Lawrence Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Monastery Over the Garage: A Canticle for a Rented Room You fling your hurting soul against old ...
Friday, January 25, 2019

Just Before Dawn, So Technically It's Not a Midnight Knock - rhyming doggerel

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Lawrence Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Just Before Dawn, So Technically It’s Not a Midnight Knock We are the F.B.I.; we beat and yell a...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Our Demographic Issues - poem

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Lawrence Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Our Demographic Issues Someday our mouldering bones will grace the walls Of a museum’s scientif...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Satan Witnesses His Own Exorcism and is Outraged - rhyming couplet

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Satan Witnesses His Own Exorcism Suggested by a Thought from Eldon “Whatever Power or powers ther...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Humans to Download Their Souls onto Microchips - poem

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Lawrence Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Humans to Download Their Souls onto Microchips So They Can Live Forever -Headline And so a...
Monday, January 21, 2019

The Super Wolf Blood Moon Eclipse - Rhyming Doggerel

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Lawrence Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com The Super Wolf Blood Moon Eclipse – Rhyming Doggerel The Super Wolf Blood Moon Eclipse Into its...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

Jesuit Bob Stylin' to the Rhythms of 1968 - poem

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Lawrence Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Jesuit Bob Stylin’ to the Rhythms of 1968 And Lord we just wanna Upon my folk guitar I plang ...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Neo-Colonialist Intersectionalism at an Intersection - limerick

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Lawrence Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Neo-Colonialist Intersectionalism Two wideawake birds bumped into each other On the distant isl...
Friday, January 18, 2019

Lovers Disappoint Each Other in Time - a sappy poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Lovers Disappoint Each Other in Time Lovers disappoint each other in time The protestations of etern...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Toxic Mooseculinity and that Gillette Commercial - weekly column

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Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Toxic Stereotypeinity             “A soldier should know the difference between words         ...

Oklahoma in the Spring of 2013 - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Oklahoma in the Spring of 2013 A young mother cradles her broken child Amid the fragments of her wor...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Saint Francis of the Garden Center - a frivolous four-line poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Saint Francis of the Garden Center Saint Francis is depicted in fine art In great museums and in mod...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Chaucer and the Lightendyten - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Chaucer and the Lightendyten 1 “The Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales Grinds from the photocopying m...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Tears, BUSY Tears - rhyming couplet

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Tears, BUSY Tears These are not tears of sorrow or joy; These are tears from allergens, m’boy. (A...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

If Robert Frost Slep with a CPAP Machine - a pastiche

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Lawrence Hall mhall4618@aol.com If Robert Frost Slept with a CPAP Machine Whose breaths these are, oh, yes, I know And on the laptop ...