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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Saturday, August 14, 2021

The menehune are serious folk

 

from this week in 2014 and2015  (I was 69 &70)

 

The menehune are serious folk

you can tell by how they play

In the dark it’s go for broke

on lava slide they made that day

 

Serious are the menehuene folk

You hear it in their songs

sung in throaty lower notes

against the throbbing gongs

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The menehune are serious folk

they plant and pull and pound the poi

they be tough and gruff as any moke

to pry and punch and poke be joy

 

Serious are the menehune folks

they peel your fruit and steal your tools

practical are their kind of jokes

they no suffer gladly any fools

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