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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Friday, June 3, 2022

That man invented the clever light

 

from this week in June, 1977  (I was 37)

 

That man invented the clever light

because he could not hear the wires sizzle

The lady danced because she liked

clothing trailing in the wind she made

Tough guy wrote books with and about 

shrapnel in his crotch

Paintings are painted of horses and violins

because they taste good to him

The caveman heaves a rock

Ponderous duck with broken foot

swims circles in the pond

The significant scare themselves out of it

That man will light it 

That lady danced it in a breeze

That pug put it in prose

That horse has splinters in his teeth

That primitive retreats hungry to the rocks

to learn a new technique

Within the dark crevice something crackles

Over his head the first bulb goes on

without a sound and weak as it was

anything not dark was bright

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