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, January 20, 2017

Inauguration


Note to readers re posts dated January 18 through January 21:
All my previous posts had aged from one to fifty years before surfacing here.  My own age and recent disposition necessitates an impetuous risk to un-cask this recent vintage of items all written within the past fume months.  Their topicality seems insistent.
  
         Inauguration 
Like losing all the Big Games in a single day
A time when music doesn’t matter
A visceral understanding of existential disdain
A need to climb in the mountains walk in the woods
more to hide than reflect
a separation made more distinct
having to live so close together
jagged edges of silence between
eyes that wish to look elsewhere
as at a funeral after having been
very close to the one dead
and fear as a new friend
whispers sound advice

Disappointment is a byproduct of belief
knowing the way certain things should be
having ascertained the obvious
Though some things could be better
some other things could not be worse
Assumptions are made even if unstated
The shattering reality leaves two alternatives
the possibility that I was wrong or
the likelihood you assholes are stupider than I thought
                

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