Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Arnold Raced Out the Door
“The typewriter is holy…”
-Allen Ginsberg
As the opening credits appeared each week
Jessica Fletcher typed on her old machine
“Arnold raced out the door” - but we don’t suppose
That we will ever learn who Arnold was
And why he was racing out a door
(Angela, we miss you!)
Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's
Journal of Life, Literature and Love
He Simply Won’t Do
Second of all, his name is Markwayne
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
That Which was Mandatory is Now Forbidden
Let no images
Be hung with Caesar’s trophies
-Flavius in Julius Caesar I.i.73-74
Now hidden are the statues of Cesar Chavez
His name, his fame, once celebrated everywhere
Were furtively cleansed in the dark of night
Lest any of his works live after him
He is closeted now in the basement of some museum
Playing poker with Abraham Lincoln and Columbus
While Mother Theresa and Winston Churchill
Exchange Shakespearean bon mots
The famous of the past are irrelevant, you see
Because
No one is as perfect as you and me
(Takeaway – from year to year I understand less and less)
Lawrence
Hall
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
Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
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?
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
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
Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
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
