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, August 31, 2020

Sweepers, Man Your Brooms! - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Sweepers, Man Your Brooms! (It’s a Navy thing) If you think you’re too...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Upon Return from the Hurricane Evacuation - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Upon Return from the Hurricane Evacuation “…and that the fury of the st...
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Thursday, August 27, 2020

The Juggler of Midlothian (Midlothian Marriot Courtyard, Desk Clerk Leto)

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An enjoyable stay while in exile from Hurricane Laura. All the staff at the Midlothian Marriott Courtyard are very friendly and helpful. ...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

"Now Tell Me Again the Things We're Against" - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com “Now Tell Me Again the Things We’re Against” She told us that she had trul...
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Monday, August 24, 2020

"Make Sure all Your Devices are Fully Charged" - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com “Make Sure All Your Devices  are Fully charged” Nothing about a storm res...
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Sunday, August 23, 2020

What Toppings Would You Like on Your Hurricane Cone? - poem for 23 August 2020

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com What Toppings Would You Like  on Your Hurricane Cone? Sunday, 23 August...
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Saturday, August 22, 2020

John Milton Title Page, MePhone Photograph

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Of your kindness please pray for the repose of  Professor Huston Diehl of happy, happy memory - A true scholar and a wonderful ...

University in the Virus-Time - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com University in the Virus-Time The sun looks down on nothing half so good ...
Friday, August 21, 2020

What's the Buzz? - rhyming doggerel

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com What’s the Buzz? Mosquitoes at humans must smugly smirk They plot all day...

Yevtushenko, Book Cover, 20th Century Russian Poetry

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Thursday, August 20, 2020

Yevgeny Yevtushenko Admires Himself - weekly column

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Yevgeny Yevtushenko Admires Himself Only in Russia is poetry respected –...
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An August Day - But on What Planet? - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com An August Day – But on What Planet? An August day of dragging hoses, washi...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

"The days are gone / When the kingdoms of earth flourished in glory" - SEAFARER, Anglo-Saxon, anonymous, trans. Burton Raffel

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Among Jacobins - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Among Jacobins “…the thoughts and feelings of each individual who really...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Virtual Candidate Drop - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Virtual Candidate Drop There is nothing wrong with your television set....
Monday, August 17, 2020

Colonel Klink and his Gonculator - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Colonel Klink and his Gonculator Colonel Klink’s machine was the very firs...
Sunday, August 16, 2020

Evening Thundercloud 16 August 2020, MePhone Photograph

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And Now Four Fingers of House Scotch - a Diptych or a Dipstick or something...

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Two Fingers of House Scotch –  a Diptych or a Dipstick or Something 1. T...
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Saturday, August 15, 2020

Two Fingers of House Scotch - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Two Fingers of House Scotch A bartender should be paunchy and       middl...
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Friday, August 14, 2020

But is it True? - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com But is it True? How was it possible for even gifted and intelligent peop...
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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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