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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Thursday, April 23, 2020

Is the crisis mode of the world


April 23, 2011  (I was 66)

Is the crisis mode of the world
indeed more severe than my life has seen
Or has my awareness grown acute
by exclusion of ordinary perception
We remedy symptoms pray for cures
out of fervent habit
and subdued expectation
Youth is allowed to drive
the insignificant used vehicle
we magnanimously passed on
once our parents died
They drive to trivial music they memorized
as we did to Disneyland
where the dresses of Snow White and Cinderella
have faded and Prince Charming
is some guy with a foot fetish
who still lives with his parents
Perceptions do change with the times
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