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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Friday, June 18, 2021

The world is so designed

 

June 18, 2011  (I was 66)

 

The world is so designed

to provide little beyond need

that may be gained sans treachery

 

Gold panned cold from mountain streams

is more surely attained by thievery

Easier to polish an idea than think it

 

How to be cheated a first lesson learned

to swallow pain in the heat of shame

to know rust is the heart of trust

 

The teacher teaches how to take

from any with any to give

and to learn our best gift is hunger

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