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, December 2, 2021

legacy

 

December 2, 2007  (I was 63)

 

           legacy

World War II excessively bent perception

as if war were an institution of right

where evil incarnate is defeated

and universal seeds of freedom are sown

It was hugely expensive

an awesome imposition on consciousness

Millions and millions in positive passion

became parents and their children came to know

the war ended the depression

It was the war to justify all wars

Hitlers lived in Asia Central America the Middle East

Chamberlains in long coats lurked in Congress

Fear itself is plenty to fear

Fear of dissent begot fear to dissent

Peace is seen as complacency

Proponents of divine prophecy expect Armageddon

will be disappointed if they don’t live to see it

Among the chosen they can point a final finger

at the fallen in their ultimate I told you so

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