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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Sunday, January 9, 2022

me eting

 

from this week of 2021 (I was 76)

 

         me eting

 

Upon the window pane

the cat rubbed its back

(like a fog)

Tsk Tsk said T.S. as

It curled about the house

and fell asleep…

here’s a little mouse)and

eek eek said ee

what does he think about, i

Nobody knows or why

Let us go then , you and me

measuring our coffee to eternity

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