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, April 21, 2020

Behind the screen:


April 21, 2009  (I was 64)

Behind the screen: 
no audience

A profiler
looks at me sideways

nylons are removed
& draped over it

another cubicle

Behind the screen:
the original face

subtext of pretext
strategy meetings

accusation of instigation
smoke fibers

The high priest
Scourges the vestal virgin 

Inescapability is a meditation

Behind the screen:                   
hand claps loud laughs
jeers and regrets

the guard
goes up for his jump shot

you see a different pitch
you hear a different pitch
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