I don’t write in a journal everyday, but I have accumulated many entries over the past 50+ years beginning in 1966. Some items evolved into longer works. Among the leftovers little pieces survived. I thought a collection of these with a piece culled from the same date in a past year would make an interesting yearbook. The consistencies and inconsistencies of mind, skipping back and forth across time, provide varied perspectives. It is difficult to remember the context of the past we’ve lived; we also make suppositions about times that predate ourselves.

The few alterations from original drafts were to improve clarity. The worst of my work is not included. There remains enough mediocrity and immaturity to make me feel humble and you feel smart. There are also moments of accidental insight and incidental humor.

Author Stephen Crane referred to his little pieces as pills…apparently they were small and somewhat hard to swallow, but good for you.


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Thursday, June 16, 2016

I went to the zoo today


June 16, 1971 (I was 26)

I went to the zoo today
first time in awhile
I even walked the midway area
and was attracted to a side show
IKON THE INCREDIBLE
An Electrifying Emotional Experience
it said and I paid my money and went in
Pitch dark
and there was a hairy guy
huddled in a glass box staring back at me
and I didn’t know what to do so I left
The sun made me squint
and I felt somewhat hollow
and people were looking at me
like I looked at him.

-see zoo freak’s piece June 14
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