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, June 15, 2022

Interrogative

 

from this week in June, 2016  (I was 71)

 

                 Interrogative

I think but have not researched the thought

that the question mark is far less used now than in the past

(and the same for auto turn signals) 

It is the implied admission of ignorance

that is so difficult to admit

in this time of adamant declaration 

despite our common condition of uncertainty

regarding the fundamental concerns

(Every turn is a speculation)

Electronic access to preconceived argument

and reply rebuttal or riposte

reduces thought to a duel instead of a construct 

No need for inquiry

(I think I know where I am going)

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