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Apr 30
Lawrence Hall
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Dispatches for the Colonial Office

                      “WHAT IS THIS MAN DOING HERE!?


           “We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny.
            But what we put into it is ours.”

                       -Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, p. 55


Major Hochstetter often bellows this question
Echoing Pharoah and Pilate, and Plato too
Your barber, an x-ray technician long ago
A couple of sack boys at the supermarket

What are any of us doing here?
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Lawrence Hall
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