Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Hugo Boss Swastikas Have Been Replaced
And I am one silent cry
over the many thousands of the buried
-Yevtushenko, “Babiy Yar,” in Yevtushenko: Selected Poems
Trans. Milner-Gulland and Levi, Penguin, 1963
The Hugo Boss swastikas have been replaced
By another bit of cloth with squiggles
But the torches are the same
The fashionable lies are the same
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Yes, We Are a Republic – Much Like Haiti
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
-Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
In America every night is Kristalnacht
Everyone seems to hate everyone else
Gunfights in our parks, mass murders everywhere
Communist-made fireworks celebrate freedom
From state to state a reichskirche is on the march
Employment is down, prices are up
Vultures circle our dying President
Some in Congress promote raw genocide
The Supreme Court authorizes presidential crimes -
As St. Thomas More said to Lord Norfolk:
“I show you the times”
