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, August 13, 2018

Hard to have a small meal when you’re hungry


8/13/17   (I was 72)

Hard to have a small meal when you’re hungry
still hungry after the meal and blaming the one
who gave you a small meal when you were hungry
and both knowing they had more to give
After they were not hungry they had leftovers
which they kept for themselves while you were still hungry 
Those who gave you none lost to your thoughts
while the ones who gave you some seem somehow
the ones who created your hunger
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