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, December 31, 2019

Smoking a Ziggurat on New Year's Even - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Smoking a Ziggurat on New Year’s Eve Young men are attacking an embassy A...

Early Hours are Best - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Early Hours are Best The early hours are best For waking up before the s...
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Monday, December 30, 2019

Is the Catholic Church Dead? - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Is the Catholic Church Dead? Did you see the beautiful young people singin...

The Great California Earthquake of Seismic Doom - rhyming doggerel

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Lawrence Hall mhall4614@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com The Great California Earthquake of Seismic Doom Some are fearful that Calif...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

"Dropping Students During Jenzabar Conversion" - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com “Dropping Students During Jenzabar Conversion” A memorandum like a corpse ...

Mrs. Willane Wright's First-Grade Class - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Mrs. Willane Wright’s First-Grade Class When we started Little Lost Bobo ...
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A Brief and Unhappy Review of the IPhone 7-Plus - review

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com A Brief and Unhappy Review of the IPhone 7-Plus      It is clunky, wit...
Saturday, December 28, 2019

Hitchhikers May be Escaped Prisoners - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Hitchhikers May be Escaped Prisoners -road sign Well, yeah, that’s pre...

+Sue Lyon - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com +Sue Lyon We are of an age But when she was rockin’ a proto-bikini I wa...
Friday, December 27, 2019

The Apostrophe Apocalypse - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com The Apostrophe Apocalypse sure we dont need no old punctuation Its antiqu...

Eden and Gethsamane - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Eden and Gethsemane Every morning in silence an old man reads Verses whil...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

Free Verse is Mucous - poem (in free verse)

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Free Verse is Mucous Free verse is mucous Dripping self-pityingly Into a...

"The Man Hath Penance Done" - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com "The Man Hath Penance Done" “The man hath penance done, And...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Do Kim Jong-Il and His Office Staff Play Secret Santa? - weekly column

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Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Do Kim Jong-Il and His Office Staff Play Secret Santa? Some speak of an after-Christmas letdown....
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

For Our Mothers on Christmas - poem (a re-post)

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com (I wrote this the first Christmas after my mother died) For Our Mothers ...
Monday, December 23, 2019

The Fourth Sunday in Advent Slightly Misshapen - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com The Fourth Sunday in Advent – Maybe I Should Have Shaped this as a Chalice...

Christmas is Awkward - a poem for Christmas Eve-Eve

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Christmas is Awkward (Don’t forget the codfish and oysters) A stagecoa...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Three Young People on Television Discuss Climate Change - not exactly a poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Three Young People on Television Discuss Climate Change like, whoa, like, ...

Truthless at Almost Midnight - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Truthless at Almost Midnight “Only the solitary seek the truth, and...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

"We Are All Pursued by Bears, Mr. Hall!" - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com “We Are All Pursued by Bears, Mr. Hall!” -Emily Grace Wilkinson Enco...
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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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