Lawrence Hall, HSG
A Hurricane: Outer Bands and Inner Thoughts
Sun gives way to clouds
Stillness to winds, birds circle
Searching for meaning
Sunday, July 7, 2024
A Hurricane: Outer Bands and Inner Thoughts - haiku
Reading the Magna Carta Will Make Us Smarter - doggerel for Supreme Court Justices
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Reading the Magna
Carta Will Make Us Smarter
(And it bans fish weirs in the Thames)
The Kings have been subject to the law since 1215
But are American presidents? That remains to be seen
In Defense of King George | Smithsonian (smithsonianmag.com)
The President Can Now Assassinate You, Officially | The
Nation
A Sunday Morning Church Message: "Some Folks Need Killing"
Lawrence Hall, HSG
A Sunday Morning Church Message: “Some Folks Need Killing”
“…disciple-makers through the power of Jesus Christ!”
-Lake Church
A lieutenant-governor strutting and yelling in church
Demanded the deaths of “some folks” unspecified
The faithful of Lake Church heard out his deadly cause
And then obediently applauded him -
The man who might someday order their executions
NC Lt. Gov. Robinson defends ‘folks need killing’ comments (msn.com)
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson at NC church meeting: “Some folks need killing” (yahoo.com)
Hurricane Track Attack Forth and Back - poem
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Hurricane Track Attack Forth and Back
Spaghetti models are not
really spaghetti
But only colored lines
across electric maps
Squiggling in iridescence around
the Gulf
Slithering atop the waves,
then to your house
The weather reporters’
cliches fall from the skies
As microbursts of
bottled-water-babbles
Canned goods and fresh
radio batteries
Tune to this station as your
roof blows away
Spaghetti models are not
really spaghetti
But watch the news in the
street – he’s getting all wet-ty!
Yes, We Are a Republic, Much Like Haiti - poem
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”
It Wasn't the Fourth of July - poem
Lawrence Hall, HSG
It Wasn’t the Fourth of July
That we may wander
o’er this bloody field
To book our dead,
and then to bury them
-Henry V IV.vii.75-76
It wasn’t the fourth of
July, but it was about then
Near the Cambodian border,
on the Vam Co Tay
Searching for two American
airman whose machine had gone down
Down, down into the
steaming green Vam Co Tay
Bloated and floating,
quite still when we saw them
The sloshy prop wash
bumped them about a bit
Empty eye sockets, mouths
open in silent screams
We poncho-linered their
bodies aboard the boat
Cigarettes of despair
against the stench and rot
This was not what we sang
about in school
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
The Haunted Electric Toothbrush - doggerel
(I don't know why this program has suddenly decided to double-space. Perhaps it is conspiring with my electric toothbrush)
Lawrence Hall, HSG
The Haunted Electric Toothbrush
This morning at dawn
I was alone
I heard a moan
A mysterious groan
A ceaseless drone
It wasn’t the ‘phone
It was my toothbrush
It had on its own
Turned itself on
My Philips Sonicare ™© and (legal protections in a peach tree) has done me good service for years. This morning it turned itself on atop a glass shelf with other little bottles of this and tubes of that, making an unusual moaning / groaning / droning that took me some time to sort out. It is a great device; when it finally hands in its lunch pail (as Bertie Wooster would say) I will buy another just like it.
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