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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Monday, July 25, 2016

Dinner at Jackie Reys


July 25, 2006  (I was 61)

         Dinner at Jackie Reys
Another great dinner in a restaurant of price
If you can afford it retirement is nice
I can remember being happy to have rice

And a few vegetables to stir fry
was too a great dinner no lie
Keep a perspective don’t cry

I hope you have time to make it work
a chance to rise above the mire and murk
or else the option to go berserk
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