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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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Today students stood around the halls


October 24, 1982  (I was 37)

Today students stood around the halls
under the old photographs
amused at what had been
They considered their own situation
and laughed that such righteous victories
as clothing choice and length of hair
ever needed to be won
They assumed opposition to such obvious freedoms
must have been weak and ineffectual
compared to the oppressions they face now
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