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.

Monday, May 4, 2020

Magnesium for the Militia Movement - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Magnesium for the Militia Movement The Declaration of Independence, The ...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Once Again Removing First Nations from Their Ancestral Homelands - MePhone Photograph

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Most of Our Penguins are Scotch-Taped Now - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Most of Our Penguins are Scotch-Taped Now Civilization is sometimes held t...
Saturday, May 2, 2020

Where the Santa Fe Depot Used to Be, April 2020, Me-Phone Photograph in Monochrome

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Small Town in East Texas, 2 May 2020 - MePhone Photograph in Monochrome

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Where's MeeMaw? - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Where’s MeeMaw? “A nameless number on a list that was afterwards mislaid...
Friday, May 1, 2020

The Last Supper as Takeout - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com The Last Supper as Takeout The command, after all, was Take, eat; not Ta...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

The Poetics of Tomato Plants - weekly column

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Lawrence (Mack) Hall Mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com 30 April 2020 The Poetics of Tomato Plants The enforced isolation ...

I am not one of the Masses - rhyming couplet

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com I am not one of the Masses To Smithsonian Magazine Get off your lazy ...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

On Reading Thomas Merton: I Didn't Know an Eyebrow was Involved - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com On Reading Thomas Merton: I Didn’t Know an Eyebrow was Involved To read ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Plautus and Tarzan - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Plautus and Tarzan The plays of Plautus all repose in peace Next to my bo...
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Monday, April 27, 2020

Zoomstreaming - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Zoomstreaming All my co-workers are kind and just and fun Consistent in t...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

The President's Haircut - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com The President’s Haircut Dear Governor Abbott: I can’t help but notice th...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

This is not a (sniff) Teabag - rhyming couplet

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com This is not a (sniff) Teabag Per Harney & Sons Well, whaddaya know...
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Friday, April 24, 2020

Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo Sued over Face Mask Requirement - poem (of a sort)

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com  Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo Sued over Face Mask Requirement...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

The Shifting Vocabulary of Whatever We're Calling That Disease This Week - weekly column

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com 23 April 2020 The Shifting Vocabulary of Whatever We’re Calling That Diseas...

Dragging Hoses on St. George's Day - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Dragging Hoses Drag those hoses when the weather is dry April’s grass is ...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Bidets as a Topic of Conversation - an awful limerick

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Bidets as a Topic of Conversation There was a French girl named Renee’ Wh...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

"...the right of the people peaceably to assemble..." - copyrighted news photograph

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  Peaceably   (c) Joshua A. Bikel, The Columbus Dispatch , via Associated Press
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Shelter in Place, Old Man - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Shelter in Place, Old Man   And now my duties are forbidden me Even the...
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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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