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, March 3, 2018

The accomplishments worn like adornments


March 3, 2013  (I was 68)

The accomplishments worn like adornments
jingle and jangle as you talk
interrupting what you say now
with continual noise of your storied past

The epic amplifies and the screen widens
Extras walk miles to escape the frame
The deaf enjoy the soundtrack
The audience got in with a ticket

The EXIT lights are off  In my row
there is something sticky on the floor
like a plot in need of editing
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