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Paul Hawkins
Feb 21, 20223 min read
Growing up in Gatewood and the Plaza District
I grew up in the Gatewood neighborhood in Oklahoma City but it wasn’t in the middle of regentrification back then (1970’s). It was lower...
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Paul Hawkins
Jan 28, 20221 min read
Sears, Sodom and Gomorrah
I worked at the old Sears on 23rd and Penn in Oklahoma City during the mid 80’s. Rumor had it that on the third floor was a bordello for...
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Paul Hawkins
Jan 28, 20222 min read
Last Streetcar at Twilight - Excerpted from "Prometheus Fit to be Tied"
White would leave his office at twilight and go to meet Atalanta at the interurban's depot. Atalanta supported her father by teaching at...
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Paul Hawkins
Jan 24, 20223 min read
Me, Herbalife and Meyer Wolfsheim
In The Great Gatsby, mobster Meyer Wolfsheim wore cufflinks made from human molars. Just to set the scene. I now realize that when I...
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Paul Hawkins
Jan 24, 20224 min read
Childhood Memories of a Prairie Catholic
I was a kid at St Francis, that downtown parish founded in the early 20th century originally a mission church to the whole Indian...
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Paul Hawkins
Jan 23, 20221 min read
True North
I do not have a mission anymore, No raison d'etre or great quest. I'm counting on the Divine Physician to restore My compass to true...
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Paul Hawkins
Jan 22, 20223 min read
A Cure for All Known Diseases
copyright 2022, Paul Hawkins 1933, the John L. Sullivan Lounge of the Hotel Roosevelt, San Juan, the Philippines. "Ooh, I want the...
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Paul Hawkins
Jan 8, 20221 min read
Two Nice Reviews of my novel Prometheus Fit to be Tied
"If we say that Atticus Finch meets Gatsby in a tale told by L. Frank Baum, it's not to decry the originality of this book, but only to...
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Paul Hawkins
Dec 21, 20211 min read
Mid-Leaping Panther (An Ontological Christmas Poem)
copyright 2011, Paul Hawkins Truth and Word restored the end to means. The Past, suspended, held without decay. Delay replaced diversion,...
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Paul Hawkins
Nov 26, 20212 min read
Last Streetcar at Twilight - A Romance
White would leave his office at twilight and go to meet Atalanta at the interurban's depot. Atalanta supported her father by teaching at...
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Paul Hawkins
Oct 9, 20212 min read
Green Energy, the Natural Gas Shortage and the “Utopic Point”
https://artmuseum.arizona.edu/events/event/19th-century-landscape-the-pastoral-the-picturesque-and-t I have been reading about the...
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Paul Hawkins
Oct 9, 20212 min read
It Had Been an American Century
I had to cut this out of "Angels and Electrons" because it interrupted the pacing, but I like it. I wrote it in 2012 but as always I was...
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Paul Hawkins
Oct 2, 20214 min read
Prologue to “Angels and Electrons” - Radio
Dedication: To the memory of my father Tell all the Truth but tell it slant - Emily Dickinson Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---...
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Paul Hawkins
Sep 28, 20211 min read
Excerpt from “Angels and Electrons: A Suburb Tale - on the Ultima Thule
Thinking of this while driving this evening, from my Sub-suburbs Tale. It’s actually a pretty funny novel, but it’s also got to stick to...
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Paul Hawkins
Sep 15, 20211 min read
Den of Snakes - An Arabesque
A tyrant of a cruel, hot land Would hold his audience, and to each supplicant command he bow before a den of snakes, and leaving –...
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Paul Hawkins
Sep 15, 20211 min read
St Michaelmas Poem
Reworked a little: St Michaelmas Poem Reworked a little: St Michaelmas Poem on the evening of st michaelmas the light will cause a silver...
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Paul Hawkins
Aug 30, 20211 min read
Thief - Poem
Thief Supplement the science with belief Acknowledge law-like certitude yet trust the thief to know what things are valuable and take the...
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Paul Hawkins
Aug 10, 20211 min read
An Angel Like a Chariot
In the manner of William Blake: “An angel rides Earth like a chariot, its sphere enfolded in his wings, and steers it towards oblivion...
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Paul Hawkins
Aug 1, 20211 min read
Ben Franklin’s Bet
"Come on, Ben, it'll only take 15 minutes." "Yes, but fifteen minutes is still a quarter of an hour, my good man, and an industrious man...
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Paul Hawkins
Jul 12, 20212 min read
The Love Poem on a Grain of Rice
The Love Poem on a Grain of Rice Copyright 2012, Paul Hawkins Thirteen years ago when they were young and in love and could hardly afford...
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