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.

Sunday, December 29, 2024

The Last American Westclox Baby Ben - poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com     The Last American Westclox Baby Ben   (Maybe)     It ticked into my heart at the Goodwill store...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Hanukkah is a Light That Always Gets In - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com     Hanukkah is a Light That Always Gets In     There is a crack in everything. That...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

A Porch of Worms on the Feast of St. Stephen - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   A Porch of Worms on the Feast of St. Stephen   These winter squalls are almost springtim...

Did You Enjoy Your Christmas? - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Did You Enjoy Your Christmas?     Christmas Night     That merry little Christma...
Monday, December 23, 2024

O Little Front Line of Bethlehem - for Christmas Eve

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   O Little Front Line of Bethlehem   Stopped and questioned multiple checkpoints A search of their ...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Last Christmas I Gave You my Pancreas - a wheeze

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(From The Saint Tibbs' Day Songbook ) Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Last Christmas I Gave You my Pancreas   I though...

For Two Dear Children on Christmas - couplet

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com     For Cate and Jack   Or Jack and Cate?   On Christmas     Certain joys about Christmas are alway...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

Do dogs have souls? Do We? - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Do Dogs Have Souls?   “Behold, I make all things new.”   Revelations 21:3-5   Do...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Our Dear Leader in His Jet Pilot Sunglasses- doggerel

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Our Dear Leader in His Jet Pilot Sunglasses   Democracy is dead, a memory, a husk Selected, not e...

By Reading This Content You Agree to OUR Privacy Policy - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   By Reading This Content You Agree to Our Privacy Policy     It was terribly dangerous ...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

The O Antiphons, the Star, and Us - poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The O Antiphons, the Star, and Us   Solstice is not a time when the sun stands still But rather a...

You (Formerly Known as You) - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   You (Formerly Known as You)   X, formerly known as Twitter And then there is you For...
Monday, December 16, 2024

Camp Pendleton in Springtime - poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com     Camp Pendleton in Springtime   Field Medical Service School, 1968     There was no warmth in ou...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

A Brief Not-Exactly-a-Review of Elie Wiesel's NIGHT

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Night , Elie Wiesel My father (602 Tank Destroyer Battalion) was one of the liberators of Ohrdruf / Buche...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

About That Beautiful Lady Sipping a Cup of Earl Grey - short poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   About That Beautiful Lady Sipping a Cup of Earl Grey   You’ve noticed her, I see – just a word of...

From the Saint Crispin’s Day Speech in HENRY V According to the State of Texas

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Lawrence Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com From the Saint Crispin’s Day Speech in  Henry V  According to the State of Texas   We   ...

The Gates of Hell & Ur F8v Bible Slogan Tee - poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The Gates of Hell & Ur F8v Bible Slogan Tee   A friend did not leave the church of his youth ...
Friday, December 13, 2024

IT'S THE JEWISH SPACE LASERS! - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   IT’S THE JEWISH SPACE LASERS!  THE JEWISH SPACE LASERS!   New Jerseyans threaten to shoo...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

The Cold Kept Me in Today - short poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The Cold Kept Me in Today   The cold kept me in today With a book, my dog, and the fire The slant...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

I Met a Man in Saint Elizabeth's Hospital Parking Lot - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   I Met a Man in Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital Parking Lot   He looked at my brand-new knock-...
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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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