Lawrence Hall
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                                     ­     Physician and Poet

                                          For Allan Pulliam
                                           Texas A & M ‘21

          I used to admire your poetry…I shouldn't admire it now. I
          should find it absurdly personal. Don't you agree? Feelings,
          insights, affections...it's suddenly trivial now. You don't agree;
          you're wrong. The personal life is dead in Russia. History has
          killed it.

                                     -Strelnikov in Doctor Zhivago

Don’t write to be approved by masters who
Wear Rolexes in the Name of the People
Don’t write to be approved by masters at all
But be your own authority and see

Your work, your words are nobler than manifestos
The latest noisy Guelphs and Ghibellines
All Power to the Constituent Assembly
One folk, one nation, one waffle with syrup

Write freedom through verses, and disobey
Anyone who wants to take your voice away