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, June 16, 2022

Hollywood home of mythology

 

from this week in 2017 (I was 72)

 

Hollywood home of mythology

is how you answer the phone

How can I direct you is what you say next

Every moment there was a memory

I have tampered with ever since

re-lit the sets so to speak

remade the scary moments into spectacles

How can I direct you is what you say next

There is a department for everything

It is important to get everyone where they need to be

I didn’t know where I needed to be

a dilemma often encountered in a particular type of myth

and Hollywood had a home for it

 

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