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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Saturday, July 15, 2017

Desperation lives in a singles apartment.


July 15, 1977  (I was 32)

         Desperation lives in a singles apartment.  He
drinks beer in the parking lot when he gets out of work at
11:00 pm.  When he is home his apartment door is open
and his chair is in direct line for viewing the hallway.  He
checks out anything that happens by.  He drives a black
sporty hardtop with gold and red striping. His life is waxed
and amplified.  His cool sounds filter down the hall.  This
guy’s first name is not Quiet.  He is on the firing line with
every chick that comes within range and he is in direct
competition with every other heterosexual male.  In mixed
company, all is fair.  In the company of other men, it’s
statistics, hits and misses.  He hates fags though he rather
suspects they find him quite appealing.

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