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, October 6, 2017

The intolerable babble on pro football telecasts


from this week in October, 2012  (I was 67)

The intolerable babble on pro football telecasts
is easily muted and replaced with audio of choice
the Vivaldi channel off I-tunes for example
introduces a new amusing milieu
as does the big band jazz channel
Lyrical tunes may be apropos or juxtaposed
Nevertheless synchronous gems dazzle
more often than stale commentary
in stagnant format from tired announcers
and insipid remarks of sideline annoyancers
More remarkable the transformation of commercials
where carefully clipped images
carry context that doesn’t necessarily sell
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