Lawrence Hall, HSG
The Latest Atmospheric River End-of-the-World
Pineapple Express Bomb Cyclone from H**l
The news is falling! The news is falling!
-as Chicken Little did not say
An apocalyptic storm of such intensity
We’re all going to drown in a flood of breaking news
The streets already overflowing with hyperbole
From reporters in damp shoes awaiting their cues
Lawrence Hall, HSG
A
Quatrain to Explain the Infinite Monkey Theory
If you set a monkey at a typewriter
To type and type for all eternity
What he will type, that little blighter
Is a politician’s speech – nonsense, you see!
Lawrence Hall, HSG
A Rotor-Tiller and the
Feast of the Presentation
Names have not been restored, as
Aslan says
Some are pleased to call this Ground-Hog Day
Although there are no ground hogs here
But the Presentation is everywhere and forever
I passed the morning deconstructing the tiller
(instead
of sacred texts)
Working debris from around the tines
Thinking about the coming spring and how -
How the Presentation is everywhere and forever
Names have not been restored, as Aslan says
Still, the Presentation is everywhere and forever
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Browsing the Poetry Titles
in the Book Store
I
soon had a thorough understanding of the rules. For a poem to go through there
had to be a few lines devoted to [
]
-Yevtushenko, p. 68, A Precocious Autobiography
Call Me by the Post-Colonial Things We Carried Without Borders
in the Boat in the Twilight Garden of our Being Unsilencing the Silent Voices Songs
of Our Powerful People Aimlessly in Fire New and Selected Hopes To Change Your
Life Forever Becoming the Healing You
Always Wanted to Be in the Emptiness Within While Searching the Soul of the
Underself in Quest of Anti-hierarchy For Elegies of the Lover
Who
Never
Was
But
Who
Might
Be on the Silences of Screaming Wings in a Rhapsody of a
Plangent Tangent of Voided Meanings at the End of the Rainbow World When a Golden Sickle
Pierced the Sighings of the Moon in Your Shivering Hand Leaves in the Exiled
Gentleness of Barbed Wire
Pillows Comforting Your Cerulean Soul-Quest of Meaningful Meaninglessness adrift in the Writhing
Arms of your Powerful Weakness as a Twinkling Pancreas
Vaults Ambition Through
Disconnected Quotes from Shakespeare Who was My Soul-Twin Aflame with Passionless
Passion for a Forbidden Vegetable Incarnadining the Cosmic Cypress of Your Unattainable
Body Through the Music of the Trapezoids as the Forbidden
Kiss of Life
And, like, stuff
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Elon Musk Invites Us Down
for Chips and Dip and Destruction
They have pulled down Deep Heaven on their Heads
-C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
He’s implanted a chip, says Mr. Musk
Into the brain (certainly not the hip)
Of some poor patient who’s now just a husk
A talking head, a thing, a radar blip
And what could go wrong with this poor android
A man now fitted with an electric brain
Adjusted and programmed and tweaked and toyed -
A failed experiment thrashing in pain?
And if he fails, this humanoid chip
Musk might use him for guacamole dip
"Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,
and make perpetual Light to shine upon them."
Specialist Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24
Specialist Breonna Moffett, 23
Sgt. William Rivers, 46
Lawrence Hall, HSG
This Smart Watch Will
Last
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden
I do not set the time; time simply is:
The dawning day requires no entrance code
The morning frost need not be set to wake
The yakking crows cannot be switched to “Off”
The lingering fog sends no notifications
The bare-limbed oaks re-set themselves in spring
The sky is the background app refresh
The wind is a warranty for life
All these good things are made to be -
I do not set the time, but God sets me
