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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Sunday, March 18, 2018

Following Everything


March 18, 1973  (I was 28)

            Following Everything
That man was present and accounted for.
And accountability was the word
and the word was held accountable.

Every morning he counted the minutes he slept,
blackened the appropriate dream bubble
and carried his card to his proper occupational component.

That man had his fantasies collected and cataloged,
every pore an electrode plugged into Circuit I.
His behavior was modified.

He was hooked into the expanding body,
one with the universal knowledge,
confidently believing the rule, Everything Follows.
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