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, October 28, 2024

The Most Embarrassed Young Father in All of Christendom - poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The Most Embarrassed Young Father in All of Christendom   I will go in to the Altar of God. To Go...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

The Sunday Evening News in a Time of Elections - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The Sunday Evening News in a Time of Elections   “Good things of day begin to droop and ...
Saturday, October 26, 2024

A Plumber's Assistant, a Nazi, and an Artificial Tree - poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   A Plumber’s Assistant, a Nazi, and an Artificial Tree   Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden, 10 F...

I Hear America Whining - doggerel

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   I Hear America Whining   The world’s fattest people, packin’ the pounds Driving in to ...
Friday, October 25, 2024

Torah is Written with Flames - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Torah is Written with Flames   English letters are as orderly as a battle line But Heb...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Driving Home After Work: "Thus Spake Zarathustra" on the Radio - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Driving Home After Work: “Thus Spake Zarathustra” on the Radio   The first few bars mu...

We are All Children When We Attempt Haiku

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   We are All Children When We Attempt Haiku   We all write Haiku We’re not any good at it But we ho...

SNL: Because Men Who Betray women are so Amusing

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   SNL: Because Men Who Betray Women are so Amusing   Re: Bang-Bang Baldwin   A man sho...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Cardinal Dolan Kisses King Herod's (Hands) - doggerel

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The High Priest Kisses King Herod’s (Hands)   His Eminence the Cardinal of New York   The High Pr...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

The First Barn-Jacket Morning in Autumn - haiku

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The First Barn-Jacket Morning in Autumn   Dawn – windy and cold The first barn-jacket ...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The Kittens Come on Little Fog Feet - poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The Kittens Come on Little Fog Feet   As Carl Sandburg did not say   At dawn: coffee and the Word...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

On Reading THREE HUNDRED TANG POEMS - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   On Reading Three Hundred Tang Poems   From The Jade Mountain they came 300 Tang dreams...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

An Autumn Flight - haiku

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   An Autumn Flight   A leaf fell, a leaf A life of summer in flight In bright golden flight
Friday, October 11, 2024

A Dixson Ticonderoga #2 Pencil from 1955 - poem and photograph

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   A Dixon Ticonderoga #2 Pencil from 1955   Neither plans nor bathroom vents last forever ...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

One Does Not Pre-Imagine Pre-Edward R. Murrow Pre-Babbling - not exactly a poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   One Does Not Pre-Imagine Pre-Edward R. Murrow Pre-Babbling   A Lesson in Clear Writing for Journa...
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

A Treatise on the Burrowing Habits of Dachshunds - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   A Treatise on the Burrowing Habits of Dachshunds   A dachshund will burrow under the gar...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

We Are Offered Two Candidates for the Presidency - not nearly a poem (but then not nearly a valid choice)

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com     We Are Offered Two Candidates for the Presidency      I am afraid that one of them will win
Friday, October 4, 2024

Falling Into Truth - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com                                     Falling Into Truth   The fall of October’s leaves is n...
Thursday, October 3, 2024

WE ARE AMERICANS! We Buy Toilet Paper and Fight, Fight, Fight! - a sort-of poem

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    Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Dock Workers’ Strike – BUY TOILET PAPER!   WE ARE AMERICANS!   Whenever threatened by enemies fu...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

His Check Engine Light is On - weak excuse for a poem but there's a nice fresh metaphor

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   His Check Engine Light is On   He came by today, a friend from long ago “I haven’t see...
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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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