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 2, 2022

It won’t be news

 

June 2, 1970  (I was 25)

 

It won’t be news

when we tell the Jews

that we will go

over to Cairo

as soon as we bomb

the rest of Viet Nam.

It’ll be a part of the Grand Tour

we provide for our poor

who are judged dumb

but want out of the slum.

They’ll show the world

democracy unfurled.

For now let’s shout a hurrah

to our efficient youth in Asia.

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