Thursday, November 16, 2023

A Gift of Omelettes - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   A Gift of Omelettes   For Max and Tod   We leave the comfort of a little fire And ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

American Businesses Losing the Metaphorical Plot - a back-of-the-hand business response chopped into ten-syllable lines

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   When Your Security Code is not Your Security Code And Your Password is not Your Password ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

At Yevna Something Happened - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   At Yevna Something Happened   The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's bloo...
Monday, November 13, 2023

Our SSuper Dooper Ubergruppenpooper - rude, shallow doggerel

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Our SSuper Dooper Ubergruppenpooper   In every generation rises a toxic SSap This one ...
Sunday, November 12, 2023

Forty Guns to Apache Pass - movie review

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Forty Guns to Apache Pass   If you’ve never seen Forty Guns to Apache Pass , you’ve stil...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

An Old Man in the Hardware Store Considers Autumn - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   An Old Man in the Hardware Store Considers Autumn   “And He has poured down for you the ...
Thursday, November 9, 2023

Homeless Man Found Murdered - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Homeless Man Found Murdered   He had nothing And even that nothing Was stolen from h...

Armistice Day / Remembrance Day / Veterans' Day 2023

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Several years ago my old school honored me by asking me to address the students at the annual Veterans' Day program. I thought it a pret...
Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Wolf-Dog-Coyote Things, Dachshunds, and a 'Possum - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Wolf-Dog-Coyote Things, Dachshunds, and a ‘Possum   “Luna! Stop it! Let go of that ‘poss...

Curbside Voting - Or Maybe Not - Photograph

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 Voting in Texas is often an adventure, especially in the game of precinct tag - the citizen who has to negotiate the highest number of loca...

Thank You, Poll Workers!

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  This morning I added a blazer to my ensemble because this is election day. The res publica - Latin for "the public matter" - is ...
Monday, November 6, 2023

All the Cool Kids are Genocidal This Year - essay

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com   All the Cool Kids are Genocidal this Year   In 1925 some 30,000 KKK marched in our nation’s c...
Saturday, November 4, 2023

Journalists Seem to Wreak Havoc Daily - or do They Havoc Wreak? - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Havoc   What is havoc, and how does one wreak it?   Havoc is a condition or state of...
Friday, November 3, 2023

"I Called to the Lord from my Narrow Prison" - as a poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com   “I Called to the Lord from my Narrow Prison”   “I called to the Lord from my narrow prison an...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

"I Called to the Lord from my Narrow Prison" - column

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com   “I Called to the Lord from my Narrow Prison”   “I called to the Lord from my narrow prison an...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Out Where the West Begins in the Drugstore Parking Lot - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com     Out Where the West Begins     In the Pharmacy Parking Lot   An old man creaks hi...

Science Experiments and Pirate Ships - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Science Experiments and Pirate Ships   For Gordon, of Happy Memory Whose death began i...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Short Shrift, Long Shrift, Everybody's Gotta Shrift - a little nonsense

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Shrifts, All Sizes   One hears of someone getting a...

Being a 'Possum Must be Rough - Doggerel

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Being a ‘Possum Must be Rough   A Dachshund’s Night...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

The October Squirrel Festival - doggerel

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   The October Squirrel Festival   For Jerry Nobles, o...