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, April 23, 2022

Is the crisis mode of the world

 

April 23, 2011  (I was 66)

 

Is the crisis mode of the world

indeed more severe than my life has seen

Or has my awareness grown acute

by exclusion of ordinary perception

We remedy symptoms pray for cures

out of fervent habit

and subdued expectation

Youth is allowed to drive

the insignificant used vehicle

we magnanimously passed on

once our parents died

They drive to trivial music they memorized

as we did to Disneyland

where the dresses of Snow White and Cinderella

have faded and Prince Charming

is some guy with a foot fetish

who still lives with his parents

Perceptions do change with the times

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