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, June 30, 2020

Karens - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Karens I love me my Karens, good, sweet, and kind: Junior high love-notes...
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Monday, June 29, 2020

Not to Decide is to Decide Blah-Blah - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Not to Decide is to Decide Blah-Blah Not to decide is to decide indeed A ...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Just Wear the Stupid Mask, Okay?

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Just Wear the Stupid Mask, Okay? Tiresome, didactic doggerel, but it’s i...
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Saturday, June 27, 2020

Sunflower and Moon, Dusk, 27 June 2020 - MePhone Photograph

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Ships of Theseus - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Ships of Theseus Every seven years, some say, we are renewed In coded seq...
Friday, June 26, 2020

"Let There be Sung 'Non Nobis' and 'Te Deum'" - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com “Let There be Sung ‘Non nobis’ and ‘Te Deum’” - Henry V Vultures circl...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

A Woke Editing of Brother Robert Frost - weekly column

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(Transferring this drivel to the InterGossip made a mess of the formatting, but it was pretty much a mess before it got here.) Lawrence H...
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Dentistry Again - poem with lots of self-pity

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Dentistry Again Anaesthesia slowly passing from me Dragging the pain of y...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Bees Disapprove of Us - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Bees Disapprove of Us There’s nothing the bees care to learn from us We t...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

A Viking Funeral for a Fisherman - Frivolous Doggerel

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com A Viking Funeral for a Fisherman When I die: Just place my body in my ol...
Monday, June 22, 2020

The Theory and Practice of Summer - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com The Theory and Practice of Summer June is Dairy Month Summer is better...
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Sunday, June 21, 2020

The More Up to Date a Book is... MePhone Photograph

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The more "up to date" a book is, the sooner it will be dated. - C. S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm

Negative Capability - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Negative Capability in a Basket   Negative capability is not A basket th...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

From John Wayne to Spike Lee - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com From John Wayne to Spike Lee From John Wayne to Spike Lee, we who were the...
Friday, June 19, 2020

A Repudiation of the Soulless Metric System - rhyming doggerel

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com A Repudiation of the Soulless Metric System Medicine is injected by the li...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

A Brief Review of CULT OF GLORY: THE BOLD AND BRUTAL HISTORY OF THE TEXAS RANGERS

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Poeticdrivel.blogspot.com A Brief Review of Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texa...

Romance of the Barren Plinth - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Romance of the Barren Plinth They’ve gone and pulled a general down And a...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

A South Dakota Sunflower in Texas - MePhone Photograph

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This is from a packet of seeds I bought at Wall Drug, Wall, South Dakota years ago. The germination rate was low because of age (I had mi...

Wall Drug, South Dakota - doggerel

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Wall Drug, South Dakota The 80-foor dinosaur is really nice For the chil...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Yellow Chair - MePhone photograph

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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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