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.

Thursday, May 30, 2024

A Pharmacy Aisle Marked INDEPENDENT LIVING - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   A Pharmacy Aisle Marked INDEPENDENT LIVING   “We shall never surrender”   -Churchill...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Cataract Surgery (I'll keep an eye out for you) - poem

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    Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Cataract Surgery (I’ll Keep an Eye Out for You)   Cataract surgery, the left eye tod...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Grooving in Area 52 - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Grooving in Area 52   Maybe…   The Beatles got it wrong back-then-ago When groovy ...
Monday, May 27, 2024

Cranky Little old Man Wearing a Bandage on His Forehead and Yelling at His Wife and Passersby While Standing in Line at the Wal-Mart Pharmacy Which Opened Five Minutes Late

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Cranky Little old Man Wearing a Bandage on His Forehead and Yelling at His Wife  and Passers...
Sunday, May 26, 2024

Memorial Day: This Bloody Field - poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com                                             Memorial Day: This Bloody Field   That we may wander o’...
Monday, May 20, 2024

Draining the Blood of Humans at Twilight - rhyming doggerel

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Draining the Blood of Humans at Twilight   A powerful monster //   living down in the ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump Schedule a Debate - rhyming couplet

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump Schedule a Debate   “No, sir, I do not bite my dentures at you, sir; but ...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

We Can't Take Our Books with Us When We Die - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   We Can’t Take Our Books with Us When We Die   Ecce nova facio omnia. Et dixit mihi: Scri...

A Nation of Couch Cabbages Blames the Chinese Communists - doggerel

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   A Nation of Couch Cabbages Blames the Chinese Communists   A question may be brought abo...

Shakespeare: Will Needs an Intervention - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   William Needs an Intervention   Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 42   Will, we need to talk: ...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Did Saloons Really Have Those Swinging Doors? - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Did Saloons Really Have Those Swinging Doors?   I’d like to mosey down to the Long Branc...
Monday, May 6, 2024

Shakespeare: I'm Not Going to Press Charges - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   I’m Not Going to Press Charges   Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 40   I gave her my love fre...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Memory Eternal and a Gift Card from Denny's - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Memory Eternal and a Gift Card from Denny’s   for   William Tod Augustine Mixson  ...

Shakespeare: Maybe We Need to See Other People

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     Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Shakespeare: Maybe We Need to See Other People   Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 39   Perhaps if we sep...

I'll Be Away from My Desk for a Few Days - very short poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   “I’ll Be Away from My Desk for a Few Days”   “Look upon my absence, Ye mighty, and despa...
Friday, May 3, 2024

Shakespeare: Honoring a Muse is Sexist, They Say - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Shakespeare: Honoring a Muse is Sexist, They Say   Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 38   They...

The Spirit of Art - very short poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The Spirit of Art   Is   The good, the true, the beautiful   Not   The sullen, the resentful, the...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Smoke Drifting Across America - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Smoke Drifting Across America   “Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live”   Columbia campus pro...
Monday, April 29, 2024

The Governor of South Dakota Takes a Shot at the Vice-Presidency - doggerel

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The Governor of South Dakota Takes a Shot at the Vice-Presidency                           Who is ...

Every Morning Begins with Sunlit Hope - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Every Morning Begins with Sunlit Hope   Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 33   Every morning b...
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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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