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, April 6, 2017

Revolution is a bomb and a prayer


April 6, 1971  (I was 26)

Revolution is a bomb and a prayer
that something anything at all
will be there once the smoke clears

Bombs are that way it seems
Planning ahead of them
is like trying to live off tomorrow’s dreams

If the times are bad, the situation intolerable
tell me that without a promise
Say only What the hell let’s rebel
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