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 27, 2021

mobius strip

 

April 27, 2014  (I was 69)

 

                  mobius strip

What comes around goes around it’s been said

get it in your head before it spirals around again

from another bend in the track

moon at your back and sun in your eyes

run while it sets and hear the night rise

You could be tore out of earth like iron ore

giving birth to a car that takes you far away

to where unreality is made reel and you feel

queasy from the smog and uneasy from the jog

and old and trashy all at once at first

Hollywood is fun and scary for any Curly Moe or Larry

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