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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Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Morality of Homeland

 

April 27, 1979  (I was 34)

 

         Morality of Homeland

Does anyone remember

we do not come from here,

we are not of this place?

The thing that binds us

is what makes us all aliens

come no matter how long ago.

 

It is not necessary to believe

we are of this place

nor to believe we are

of the same place

nor to believe we will return there

when we leave here.

 

It is unnecessary to give a shit

we’re so many generations removed.

We were put here;

we did not make a choice,

so it’s okay if we fuck up the air

and the water and the ground.

It’s okay to pollute the fire

if that’s what we choose to do.

 

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