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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Sunday, September 1, 2019

fine tuning


September 1, 1970  (I was 25)

         fine tuning
oh tellovision mellowvision
of soft images and fair
winging smoothly to me
across the turbulent air
what am I to learn from you
heat my heart and warm my tubes
let me create a dream that’s new
let it be an electric miracle
a stability both horizontal and vertical.
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