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, January 27, 2018

In the dentist’s chair


January 27, 2008  (I was 63)

In the dentist’s chair
root canal worst case scenario
You are out of there two hours max
with a prescription for pain killers
On the drive home knowing it is done is nirvana
The process induces Colin Wilson’s absurd good news
knowing what we really want
the predictable comfort of what we have
the breath the drink the food the work the sleep
a solvable crisis to make the next one easier
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