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.
Sunday, March 22, 2026
He Simply Won't Do - poem
That Which was Mandatory is Now Forbidden - poem
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)
The First Casualty of War - poem
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
Coloring Outside the Lines - poem
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?
Thinking Outside the Box, Bag, or Other Sustainable Rain-Forest Ethically-Sourced Container - poem
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
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Oscars 2026 - Specimens in a Glass Cage: poem
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
"Just for Fun" - poem
Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
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?”
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