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, July 6, 2019

Application for what’s next


July 6 2013   (I was 68)

   Application for what’s next
What kind of tools were used to shape you?
Were there gross removals major grindings
chiseling re-positioning paring scraping
sanding buffing polishing burnishing?
Were additives used?  Any addictive?
Any radical procedures exposures reactions?
Any sensory deprivation tortures beatings
allurements promises inferences?
Were you ever allowed choice in the matters?
More or less often than no choice?
On a scale of one to ten
how did it all turn out?
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