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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Friday, December 2, 2016

the unfit


from this week in 2012  (I was 68)

       the unfit                 
They’d like to fit in
not be misfits or bad fits
but sure fits
wearing the shoe that fits
making no one fit to be tied
moving smooth with no fits and starts
If not physically fit nor a perfect fit
at least a comfortable fit
Fatigued from the effort
they fitfully sleep
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