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, April 30, 2019

Streaming Forbidden Love - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Streaming Forbidden Love So many movies on the streaming service Advert themselves as about forbidde...
Monday, April 29, 2019

An Extraordinary Ordinary Life - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com An Extraordinary Ordinary Life For Mrs. Tinney Davidson, The Waving Grandma Comox, British Columb...
Sunday, April 28, 2019

Manic Pixie Dream Girl at a Funeral - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Manic Pixie Dream Girl at a Funeral The manic pixie dream girl of my youth Curving and tight, scampe...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Pascha at St. Michael's Orthodox Church - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Pascha at St. Michael’s Orthodox Church Happy Easter / Pascha to a Russian Orthodox Friend What s...
Friday, April 26, 2019

A Clerisy of One - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Clerisy of One I am a clerisy of one I argue with myself a lot And as I speak I know I’ve won I’...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

For President of the United States - Me - weekly column

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Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com For President of the United States - Me For fear of being the only American not to run for offic...

An Execution - Maybe the Prisoner was Already Dead - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Maybe the Prisoner was Already Dead “...he stepped slightly aside to avoid a puddle on the path.” ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Choking on Aspirational Hyphens - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Choking on Aspirational Hyphens Our straw boss, now, she hyphenates her name And there is something ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

"We Will Rebuild Notre Dame Even More Beautifully" - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com “We Will Rebuild Notre Dame Even More Beautifully” -President Macron Your privacy is guaranteed ...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Neo-Platonic Darwinian Bird-Ness - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Neo-Platonic Darwinian Bird-Ness The birds might say, “Oh, look at the pretty humans! They have wait...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Ubi Petrus - poem (a repost for Easter Sunday)

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Ubi Petrus For Inky and Jason “Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia” - St. Ambrose of Milan Where...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

No One Has Messed Up Good Friday Yet - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com No One Has Messed Up Good Friday Yet All Souls’ and All Saints’ were made to disappear Easter is bad...
Friday, April 19, 2019

"Stop Crying While I'm Making Your Lives Happy! - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com An All-Purpose Holiday Behavior Modification Plan   (no, no, just a house I visited long ago - I ...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

A Load or Two of Codswallop - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Load or Two of Codswallop One hears of a load of codswallop But no one knows what a codswallop is ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

If There is a Rebound, There Must Have Been a Bound - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com If There is a Rebound, There Must Have Been a Bound Rebound! I don’t understand basketball at all ...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

The Pragmatic Sanction of a Penny Candle - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Pragmatic Sanction of a Penny Candle Nothing is more pragmatic than a votive light A candlelight...
Monday, April 15, 2019

Famous News Guy Live With the Burning of Notre Dame de Paris - not exactly a poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Famous News Guy Live With the Burning of Notre Dame de Paris Notre Dame is much more than a place of ...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

The Elf-Girl, the Knight, and the Holy Grail - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Elf-Girl, the Knight, and the Holy Grail She giggles, soft-hidden behind the green And summer-te...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Seeking Sanctuary at the French Embassy - weekly column

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Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184 Seeking Sanctuary at the French Embassy “...and thence to a thing that peers in at…windows…” -C. S...

The Little Bighorn Battlefield Across from the Gas Station - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Little Bighorn A mist, but not of memories or ghosts, And not a silent mist - a noisy one Drift...
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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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