Lawrence Hall, HSG
Lent is Not About
Giving Up Things Lent is Not About Giving Up Things Lent is Not About Giving Up
Things Lent is Not About Giving Up Things
All
of my life I have been told
That
Lent is not about giving up things
So
was there a time when anyone
was
told otherwise?
Lawrence Hall, HSG
“Never Surrender”
Sneakers – Collectible Bone Spurs Edition
Now we have lived to see a president
Hawking tatty cartoon-character shoes
Having already pawned his soul for rent
And now the bailiffs are turning the screws
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Gen X, Gen Y, Gen
Z, and Boomer Tea
How wicked to stereotype the several gens
To brew a tempest in a pot of self-pity -
The morning sun shines upon a world of friends
For we are all leaves on an Eden-tree
Lawrence Hall, HSG
A Martyr is a Poem
For Alexei
Navalny
“Only in Russia is poetry respected; it gets people
killed.”
-Osip Mandelstam
His soul was a poem; upon it he wrote
Of hope for Russia’s peoples frozen in pain
A poem of stern rebuke to Rolex tyrants
Who censored him with beatings, poison, and death
He spoke
He died
Because he spoke he died
Because he spoke the truth he died
They left his unfinished poem upon the ice
His soul was a poem – we must complete his verse
Lawrence Hall, HSG
There are no Foreign
Accents in Texas
“For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical
appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings,
Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of
America.”
– John Steinbeck
There are no foreign accents here, n'est-ce pas?
Un acento extranjero is for Auslander
And there are no mga dayuhan here
The dat belongs to all of us and to niemand
Before even the Pierwsze Narody there was the jord
And les humains have come in successive amaza
Izdao each other with אלימות and кровь
Κατακτήσεις and 背叛 instead of féastaí
But 私たち are trying to make it bora now -
There are no foreign accents here, capisci?
I played with Microsoft’s
translator ]english to
spanish - Search (bing.com)] because to my regret I have no language
other than English and puer parvus scholis Latinis.
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Dragons for Your
New Year
For Doris and Anthony
Who have known dragons
Eustace
had read only the wrong books; they had a lot to say about exports and imports
and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.
-C. S. Lewis, Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The dragons are a polite and ancient race
And very conscious of their dignity
It would not do to neglect their seasons and feasts
Lest they neglect to visit you this year
They want to bring good fortune to your house
But first you must make a place for them -
Their breath will warm your room, your hearth, your heart
Their knowledge will make your children worthy and wise
Their songs will send your family happy dreams
For dragons are a polite and generous race
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Reader Responses in
the U. K. Daily Mail
RepubliCraps. Demoncrats. Repugs. DemoCraps. MAGA. Magats.
Maggots. Clown. Orange clown. Clowns. Clown show. Absolute clown show. Absolute
commie clown show. Diaper Joe. Dr. Potatohead. Moron. Selected not elected.
Deplorables. Trailer trash. Absolute trailer trash. Said no one ever. Oh wait. Lock
her up. Lock him up. Throw away the key. Absolutely. Joebama. Drumpf. Dump. Woke.
Wokista. Wokerati. Absolutely Woke. Biden’s America. Trump’s America. Mean
tweets. No mean tweets. These teachers. These schools. These universities. TDS.
Absolute TDS. Liberal idiots. Extremist idiots. Absolute idiots. ROFL. Grab
some popcorn. …in 1, 2, 3… Dumpster fire.
Absolute dumpster fire. You can’t make this stuff up. Train wreck. Absolute
train wreck. Car crash. Absolute car crash. Total car crash. The jokes write
themselves. At its finest. Pure evil. Absolute pure evil. Cue crickets. Of biblical
proportions. Of epic proportions. Of absolute epic biblical proportions. Rinse
and repeat. Rules for thee but not for me. Two-tier justice system. Absolute
two-tier justice system. You could look it up. Follow the science. Full stop. LOL.
End of. Absolutely. Fact. FACT!!!!!
