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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Monday, October 25, 2021

Stan and Ollie meet Guy deMaupassant

 

October 25, 2010  (I was 65)

 

   Stan and Ollie meet Guy deMaupassant

Stanley knows Ollie’s most prized possession

is his fine silver pocket watch

an object admirable in function and design

 

After a moving van runs over Stanley’s Victrola

Ollie sees him wistfully put a disc to his ear

and finger each sleeve of his precious collection

 

Christmas morning Ollie unwraps a watch chain

fine silver with engraved fob attached

“But I sold my watch to buy your gift”

 

Stanley opens the box and laughs to see

the finest modern Victrola made

“And I sold my records to purchase the chain”

 

-I began a series of pieces using Laurel and Hardy as

representations of right brain and left brain perception.

Not an original idea, I got it from Colin Wilson’s study,

Frankenstein’s Castle.  More appear in other posts.

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