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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Monday, May 21, 2018

I am not one to belong


from this week in May, 2012  (I was 67)

I am not one to belong to an organization
but I am not disorganized nor am I
anti-organization for the common good
commonly decided unionization
for instance to negotiate contracts
with financially advantaged
politically influential partisans
who call themselves management
without the mis- so often apparent

I want to flock with right wing pacifists
who know they can’t fly without a left wing
I play golf like a right-brain leftist
with a gang playing like left-brain rightists
and a guy named no-brain-Wayne
who hits the ball long and says fuck ‘em all
from well inside his flask by the fourth hole
And its okay by me nobody plays by the rules
I got my own game and guess they are the same

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