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, May 26, 2018

Do you own an intellectual domain


from this week in May, 2013  (I was 68)

Do you own an intellectual domain
Actual real estate has become so expensive
Used to be foreigners were the only ones
who couldn’t afford to buy
Now they are the only ones who can
They bid over the asking and pay cash
We the country sell not only the land
we sell the faith in the dream we promised
our own children  We fight absurd wars
of big dog belligerence
then fear every bark and yap we hear
Nothing sets the teeth on edge like fear
Diplomacy takes so much time
We can bomb tomorrow
Actually both are daily behaviors decided upon
with the false reasoning of preconceived notions
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