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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Sunday, October 16, 2016

Mutual Mute-tation


October 16, 2010  (I was 65)

         Mutual Mute-tation
When you reach an age
they stop letting you change
Suggestions are treated with silent suspicion
Ideas encounter silence
and rebound through the mind
that no longer exists in any changeable way
You know they are thinking more
of what they will do
when they no longer have to be silent
So act alone on the changes you suggest
and learn to suggest them silently
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