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, January 29, 2022

two minimals

 

January 29, 2012  (I was 67)

 

         two minimals

Expectation is the brother of disappointment

From his observations and commentary

meant to cynically correct your existence

with the beneficence of his sibling experience

irrelevance exposes the false prophet

                        *

Every expression carves another rivulet

Footprints change geography

Creased mud that feeds a root starves another

and alters the face of the face

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