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Daily poetry and journal entries from the past 50 years, each from this same date.
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, October 31, 2016
When the way is icy
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Sunday, October 30, 2016
from Harangutan
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Again more slogans from the bulletin board
Friday, October 28, 2016
Billy The Kid (chapter 117)
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
The way is walked backward
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Can you get up? How many fingers?
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
There are times the microcosm gets kicked in
Monday, October 24, 2016
Still more slogans from the bulletin board
Sunday, October 23, 2016
When did the first identity I might recognize
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