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, May 6, 2021

Phil Jackson plays squeaky shoe basketball

 

May 6, 1973  (I was 28)


Phil Jackson plays squeaky shoe basketball

He is no ballet dancer

though he does versions of the same moves

He is either too tall or too thin

He plays frantic basketball

his nerve ends are exposed

He came into the third playoff game

and for ten minutes everyone was the same

All the Knicks all the Lakers

squeaking squeaking offense defense

and Phil knew how to squeak best of all

squeaking steadily turning the game around

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