Lawrence Hall, HSG
Moving the
Metaphor
“Moving the needle” isn’t moving anymore
As a metaphor it is out of the groove
Although politics are spinning at 78
The needle is quite worn down, and so am I
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Move the Metaphor; Move the Needle - short poem
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
If Mr. Vance Says You Ate Someone’s Pet Cat Then Obviously You Ate Someone’s Pet Cat
Lawrence Hall, HSG
If Mr. Vance Says You Ate Someone’s Pet Cat
Then Obviously You Ate Someone’s Pet Cat
“Show me the man and I will show you the crime”
-many attributions, usually to Lavrentia Beria, sometimes to Stalin
"In Springfield, they're eating the dogs…They're eating the cats.
They're eating the pets of the people that live there.”
-Presidential candidate Donald Trump, 10 September 2024
"If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do."
-Vice presidential candidate J. D. Vance on CNN, Sunday, 15 September 2024
Little children in school are threatened with bombs
Because someone said that someone said
That someone ate someone else’s pet cat
Patients in hospitals are threatened with bombs
Because someone said that someone said
That someone ate someone else’s pet cat
City office workers are threatened with bombs
Because someone said that someone said
That someone ate someone else’s pet cat
A Lutheran university is threatened with bombs
Because someone said that someone said
That someone ate someone else’s pet cat
A few Proud Boys [sic] stumble around in the street
Because two Heroic Men of Destiny said
That someone ate someone else’s pet cat
Monday, September 16, 2024
I’m Proud of My Childless Cat Lady Daughter - two lines in response to certain stuffy old politicians
Lawrence Hall, HSG
I’m Proud of My
Childless Cat Lady Daughter
Some call her a childless cat lady
At work the staff call her “Doctor”
The Terrifying Creepy Chilling Iconic Sniper’s Lair - poem
Lawrence Hall, HSG
The Terrifying Creepy Chilling Iconic Sniper’s Lair
Some call it the sniper’s lair, some the sniper’s nest
Some call it a creepy lair
Some surely call it chilling and iconic
Because to InterGossip posters everything
Is chilling, iconic, jaw-dropping, and a bombshell
It’s just a sad, sagging old chain-link fence
With some sad old man’s wannabe G.I. Jerk
Army wannabe soldier-toys hanging from it
The Kalashjackov was real enough
The poor fool’s mind, not so much
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Runes Recently Discovered - poem and photograph
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Runes Recently Discovered
We have mysterious runic messages still
Appearing this morning – there, on the road – see them?
Some say these irregular scrawls mark utilities
But you know, there are Wee Folk in these woods
15 September 2024
Saturday, September 14, 2024
If Li-Po Were my Houseguest - quatrain
Lawrence Hall, HSG
If Li-Po Were my Houseguest
If Li-Po were my houseguest tonight
I’d probably have to drag him inside
After he’d been drinking to the moon’s silver light
And heave him into his bed with a gentle chide
We Don't Understand, But We Hope - Poem
Lawrence Hall, HSG
We Don’t Understand, But We Hope
We don’t understand it, but we hope in it
The change from that which is to that which isn’t
Or is the change back again and no change at all
Which maybe means the blood and pain remain
We recline in a rented banquet room
We follow in fear along a narrow street
We watch in horror upon a death-haunted hill
We are called to an empty tomb which isn’t empty
We are called to a dented Cup which also isn’t empty
(Maybe $200 at the church supply store)
Cradling a Mystery from before time
A plate of bread that looks like bread but isn’t
The Altar is where the arc of history bends
Mystery
Who among the servers did the dishes
And did she accidentally drop a Cup?
(That part’s not important)
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