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.

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Tell Me About Your Day - poem

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     Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Tell Me About Your Day   The evening air is cool – let’s sit outs...
Friday, October 3, 2025

So I Got to Pike's Peak... - short poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Some Adventure!   I saw the sunrise glory of Pike’s Peak...

Your Heart as a Tabernacle - short poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Your Heart as a Tabernacle   From an idea by Blue Sapphire   The he...

Lady Macbeth and a Luna Moth - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Lady Macbeth and a Luna Moth   A luna moth is elegant in...
Thursday, October 2, 2025

Jesus and a Reference to Fowler's Modern English Usage - doggerel

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Jesus and a Reference to  Fowler’s Modern English Usage   “But who ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

I am not God - doggerel

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   I am not God   About final judgement Just give it a re...
Monday, September 22, 2025

An Unhappy O. Henry Ending - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   An Unhappy O. Henry Ending   His picture is on the telescreen tonig...

For my Mother's Funeral - couplet

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   For my Mother’s Funeral   For my mother’s funeral I di...

Never Carry a Rifle - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Never Carry a Rifle   Never carry a rifle For a man ...

Everyone Has Advice for Writers - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Everyone Has Advice for Writers There is a man…hangs ode...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

The Leaker Demands Informers - doggerel

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   The Leaker Demands Informers   Why do people inform on o...

Red Spider Lilies in Autumn - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Red Spider Lilies   For Max   Who Magicked Autumn in with the Spide...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

The Brass-Elevator Mountaineer, Poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office     The Brass-Elevator Mountaineer   A weak imitation of...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

That To-Go Coffee Ain't Goin' - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   A Cup of Coffee Not to Go   APP ORDERS ONLY APP ORDERS ONLY APP ORD...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

Grandmama's Methodist Bible - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Grandmama’s Methodist Bible “For all find what they truly ...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

Darwinianism Stalks the Suburbs - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Darwinianism Stalks the Suburbs   God giveth the earth the good gre...
Friday, September 5, 2025

A Child Asked me a Reasonable Question about God - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   A Child Asked me a Reasonable Question about God   A chi...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Because They are Young - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Because They are Young   For Those Who Have Lost Children   The goo...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Where is Herod's Father? - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Where is Herod’s Father?   …lamentation, and weeping, an...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

An Hour in Which Nothing Much Happened - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   An Hour in Which Nothing Much Happened     The country talked quiet;...
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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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