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 20, 2019

I read slow


from this week in May 1978  (I was 33)

I read slow
real slow
I think I read good
but I do read slow

I have to say the dialog
at least in my head
sometimes 3 or 4 interpretations
I want to know if I would have said that
or how I’d inflect it if I did

Sometimes I don’t think I see the print well
it kind of disappears
or the words turn around
until I say dyslexia
then they line up straight again
(that’s why I think it’s just me
rather than the equipment)

I’m not a patient reader either
I mean I’ll wait for awhile
but I’d just as soon go throw Frisbee
or just daydream as I look at the words
I’m pretty entertaining myself
Even when I’m attentive I read slow
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