Authorities will shut them down again Each in its turn: The Brick, the Stray Dog Cafe, Foxy John’s (Beer Wine Good Food Low Prices), Cafe’ Zanzibar, Joe’s Eats down by the piers
And Denny’s past, before the blood-crazed purge Exiled us scribbling hippies to the street To search again and build again a space Where verbs and nouns and smoke are flung about
Because we are colonialists of the heart Who build up empires of beauty and truth
Your ‘umble scrivener’s site is: Reactionarydrivel.blogspot.com. It’s not at all reactionary, tho’ it might be drivel.
Lawrence Hall’s vanity publications are available on amazon.com as Kindle and on bits of dead tree: The Road to Magdalena, Paleo-Hippies at Work and Play, Lady with a Dead Turtle, Don’t Forget Your Shoes and Grapes, Coffee and a Dead Alligator to Go, and Dispatches from the Colonial Office.