Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
They’ll Be Kissing Someone Else’s Boots Next Year
I saw a cleaner landscape as I traveled today:
All the TRUMP flags have mysteriously gone away
Saturday, June 7, 2025
They’ll Be Kissing Someone Else’s Boots Next Year - rhyming couplet
Garish On-Your-Face In-Your-Face Makeup at Twenty Paces - a poem of sorts
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
Garish On-Your-Face In-Your-Face Makeup at Twenty Paces
There are several forms of government:
Monarchy
Kakistocracy
Oligarchy
Autocracy
Democracy
Anarchy
But Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk have given us
A new form of government via online spat
We’re ruled by cheerleader moms who shriek and cuss
So what is the scholarly Greek word for that?
Hey, red-caps, don’t start all-capping “WE’RE A REPUBLIC”; there is no pure democracy and no pure republic, and in common usage they are synonymous. Don’t just chant stuff you hear on the InterGossip. Read an ordinary high school textbook on government (maybe not an Oklahoma adoption, though).
Pushkin the Poetic Cat - poem
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
Pushkin-Cat
Long, lean, and lanky, he
slithers like a snake
With blue-grey fur; he makes
the mousies quake
But I haven’t seen him in several
days
He roams the woods and fields,
he hunts, he strays
He’s proud and brave, my handsome
Russian Blue -
Did he cross claws with a
treacherous Chartreux?
Did they exchange hisses at
just ten paces
Does his little corpse lie in
wild snowy spaces?
I hope his life hasn’t ended
like that
For I very much miss my dear
little cat
Friday, June 6, 2025
Bishops Who Roar Like Lions - poem
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
Bishops Who Roar Like Lions
Your Grace:
There have been bishops who have roared like lions
But your demeanor is that of a house pet
Please rise from your couch in Caesar’s triclinium
And return to the streets to serve God’s people
What Did He Say? - poem
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
What Did He Say?
She sat on the porch with her
big orange cat
All cuddled up happily in her
lap
When we arrived to drive her
to an appointment
In a large building in the
center of town
The doctor said something
about stage 2
She had little to say as we
drove away
And when we left her at her
home again
She sat on the porch with her
big orange cat
All cuddled up happily in her
lap
Monday, June 2, 2025
The New Poets of England and America - poem
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
The New Poets of England and America
Young poetry is the breath of parted lips.
-Robert Frost, introduction
The New Poets of England and America
They’re no longer new; they’re not even alive
Those post-war young voices of strength and hope
Working through the wastelands after men of destiny
Blitzed beauty with bullets, bombers, and barbed wire
Some of them soldiers, and war-weary all
They were worn out, but determined and young
Digging out the words they had hidden away
Cleaning them up for service to humanity
They were young; they were very much like you
Doing their duty as artists and poets must do
The New Poets of England and America
Ed. Donald Hall et al
Introduction by Robert Frost
New York: Meridian Books, 1957
Sunday, June 1, 2025
The Texas Sanhedrin - doggerel
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
The Texas Sanhedrin
Sponsored by Sen. Phil King, a Republican from Weatherford, the bill requires every classroom to visibly display a poster [of The Ten Commandments] sized at least 16 by 20 inches. The poster can’t include any text other than the language laid out in the bill, and no other similar posters may be displayed.
-Ten Commandments in every classroom:
Texas bill nearing law | The Texas Tribune
Our legislature suppresses the
pilgrims’ way
They’ve established a government
church; we must obey
And from its edicts free
Texans dare not stray
(Though the lawmakers work on
the Sabbath day!)
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