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.

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

In August Falls the Magic - All Major Credit Cards Accepted

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com In August Falls the Magic All Major Credit Cards Accepted No meaning obtains in calendars and clo...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

I Wish I Wuz a Sheriff's Deputy - doggerel

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com I Wish I Wuz a Sheriff's Deputy I wish I wuz a sheriff’s deputy The traffic laws would mean noth...

I will Re-Name this 'Blog in the Next Few Weeks

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30 July 2019 Dear Friends, In the next few weeks I will re-name this 'blog. I propose to call it Lawrence Hall.blogspot.com If ...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Partissssssssan Politicssssssssss - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Partisssssan Politicssssssss Snakes fighting in a rutted logging trail A chicken snake against a rat...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

The Doomsday Wristwatch and Fitness Tracker - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Doomsday Wristwatch and Fitness Tracker Since Mickey’s hands are now at two ‘til twelve Let’s po...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Wisteria, Ivy, and Grape - for the Children of Summer - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Wisteria, Ivy, and Grape For the Children of Summer Wisteria, ivy, and grape: they cling To the...
Friday, July 26, 2019

The Log Truck of Unrequited Dreams - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com If You See a Log Truck You’ll Have Good Luck Playin’ on the back porch, got an old dog Chewed my toy...

Decolonize Decolonizing - weekly column

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Decolonize Decolonizing             “… the prevalent spirit of high-flown rhetoric which has been sp...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Corpses for the Lamps of China - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Corpses for the Lamps of China If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied. ...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

The Mueller Report Goes "Poof!" in the Atmosphere - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Mueller Report Explodes into the Atmosphere When meteors on dinosaurs Fall crashing like the Tem...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Reflections While Flinging a Dead Snake Over the Fence

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com   Reflections While Flinging a Dead Snake Over the Fence   Is reality filtered through o...
Monday, July 22, 2019

"The Test of a Man is in His Conversation" - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com “The Test of a Man is in His Conversation” -Ecclesiasticus 27:5-8 Friends are the chief ornaments...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

Thirteen Reasons Why NOT - a timely re-post

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Thirteen Reasons Why Not We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Da Nang on the 20th of July in '69 - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Da Nang on the 20th of July in ‘69 On the 20th of July in ‘69 I was on the Tien Sha peninsula Prob...
Friday, July 19, 2019

The Birds - Neither Hitchcock nor Disney - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Not the Disney Version Two feathers lay upon the new-mown lawn Like aircraft wreckage after a combat...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

There's a Hurricane! Buy More Batteries! - weekly column

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com There’s a Hurricane – Quick! Buy More Batteries! The other day I said to the spouse-person that I tho...

Stump Junction by Moonlight - It Ain't Paris, Texas or Paris, France

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Stump Junction by Moonlight “How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)?” -a song of the First World W...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

But Yevtushenko Might Corrupt Our Jailers - a tribute to Penguin paperbacks

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Lawrence Hall mhall46194@aol.com But Yevtushenko Might Corrupt Our Jailers A tribute to Penguin paperbacks When they Someday Tak...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Fog and a Hypothetical Cat on the Fifth Sunday After Pentecost

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Fog and a Hypothetical Cat on the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost From an idea suggested by Pharaohnic...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Robin Hood's Favorite (or Favourite) Saint - 15 July is Saint Swithin's Day

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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 ra...
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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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