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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Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Ultimate Cynicism Bureaucratically Bred


from this week in May, 1987  (I was 42)
 
   Ultimate Cynicism Bureaucratically Bred
William Casey dead?
I doubt it.
I doubt he ever had brain seizures.
He was CIA Director.
He wasn’t going to testify.
Any movie will tell you
“If caught, the Company will deny knowledge of your actions
your assignment and possibly you.”
Surgery at Georgetown is a way out of that old cliché!
Everything at Georgetown is suspect-
classic academic front.
Casey’s probably living
in Mengele’s old place down in South America.
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