Dispatches for the Colonial Office

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

The First Casualty of War

Is a 19-year-old PFC

Coloring Outside the Lines - poem

Lawrence Hall

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

Coloring Outside the Lines

If everyone is coloring outside the lines

Except one child, who is defiantly following a grid

Among those crayon trees and tomato vines -

Who, then, is the most imaginative kid?

Thinking Outside the Box, Bag, or Other Sustainable Rain-Forest Ethically-Sourced Container - poem

Lawrence Hall

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

Thinking Outside the Box, Bag, or Other

Sustainable Rain-Forest Ethically-Sourced Container

If Everyone is Thinking Just Alike

They are Trump’s cabinet

Now let’s all go get tattoos

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Oscars 2026 - Specimens in a Glass Cage: poem

Lawrence Hall

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

Oscars 2026 – Specimens in a Glass Cage

After watching for a few minutes of given time

Their clumsy humor and predictable set-pieces

Subsuming souls into their toxic clime

One realizes

That these unhappy creatures are not our species

"Just for Fun" - poem

Lawrence Hall

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

“Just for Fun”

Now someday when those demented old men

Are guided each to his courtroom seat

To account again for terror and sin

And face the judgements the magistrates may mete

Smoke, vultures, and lies will still stain the skies

Over rotting blood shed from the shallow-buried dead

While unseeing eyes echo stricken Rachel’s cries

(“An excursion,” and “just for fun,” one of them pled)

But we will share the shame in that docket too

When the Almighty asks of each of us

“What did YOU do?”

Napoleon Surveys His Split-Screen Image of Moscow and Teheran - poem

Lawrence Hall

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

Napoleon Surveys His Split-Screen Image of Moscow and Teheran

Operation Roar of the lion Epic Fury

Little Excursion Art of the Dignified Transfer

II.

The war is very complete beginning, middle, or end

Four to five weeks unconditional surrender

Four to six weeks very soon short term short term

We’re winning the war by a lot pretty much

It’s not protracted this is not endless

Some time to achieve whatever the time is

Substantially ahead of our time projections

III.

I will receive the surrender delegation now

Whaddaya mean there’s no surrender delegation?

Someone’s smoking. Someone’s smoking. Stop it!

Is there a little touch of frost in the air?

Dignified Transfer - poem

Lawrence Hall

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love