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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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

This is 1977 and I’ve got detergent in the cranium

 

from this week in April, 1977  (I was 32)

 

This is 1977 and I’ve got detergent in the cranium

I’m not paying enough attention to my eye muscles

I don’t have any money

Vaseline in the pocketbook

Oil leaking out of my rear end.

Personal relationships are hesitant

I’m putting a brick in the toilet tank;

The neighbor is watering his lawn.

There must be someway to buy our way out of this drought;

Who do we have to pay?

Arabs? Cubans? Columbians?

Can’t we buy something from England or France

Besides that big plane?

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