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, October 6, 2016

minimalanimal



October 6, 1977  (I was 32)  

               minimalanimal

                  matter
lowest                                         
                  cell                          
scarce           
                                     being                           
              least            
                                     entity        
         simple            
                                     creature            
           rudimentary                                     
                                     beast                 
              restricted                         
                                     varmint                           
                    petty            
                                     predator                       
minor             
                                     fauna          
         conservative             
                                     denizen                      
                 minute           
                                     barbarian                        
      reduced
                                     brute                  
              miniature           
                                    stock                    
         exact                                       
                           circumstance                 
       precise                          
                                     image                    
       humble


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