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, November 4, 2017

mixed metaphors


from this week in 1980  (I was 35)

         mixed metaphors
Lennon’s on the cover of Esquire
and the moral majority is going to rebuild the world
Old quarterbacks learn to preach
They go to Congress where they can still pitch
the long bomb
My head is between two speakers
Deceptive me slides into the bass
safe for now is the call
I know this is not my game
the bass goes Boom boom boom
and repeats itself
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