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lost in space

sept 30, 7:59 am the cuse

beale street breakdown: ai by rdoc

okay, i dont know what im doing
still crippled but still writing, learning
hoow to live with it, hoping on PT
and meditations in long run

have been unable to get groove on novel
just dont know what to do with it, gon mmake
it more fablic and it read better than i feared
im just not sure what to do with it

in process of revising my hoodoo almanac
iit was designed as daily advice thing, an
attempt to do something commercially
viable but my agent was unimpressed and

i find myself embarassed by it and assume
its not commercially viable and there are
a million of them out there, most really bad

okay, inlf by the essay approach to memoir
gon do a weekly rather than daily which gives
me 52 mini CNFie room to stretch out

and instead of rudimentary daily advice
ima stretch out with spiritual and cosmic
and conceptual and political musings

i figure im in closure and since its not
commercially viable (i cnt hustle it if
im not impressed with it) i might as well

do what i want to do and consider this
my way out there effort where i let
myself go conceptually and spiritually

a big concern is that it cover diff ground
than memoir and holybook,  maybe iinstead
of a 2nd person jeremiad i do more internal
musings but that is the memoir, i need to let it

be a meditation on the hoodoo way and
what about i incl mini interviews w/fellow
travelrs, we will just have to see . . . .

just do it and see what hsppens . . . .

 

 

demoja: on dying and a graceful closure

okay, ii have come up with a deathbed blues thing, i envy the jews their ritual embrace of death and the peace that must bring at what could be one of the most spiritual events you will ever experience, point you have to accept its time and embrace a return to the great all, (tell the raindrop lost in the ocean tale, o what an experience the ocean must be) ive experimented with postulating a deathbed blues but that didnt quite get it, lacked specificity, and im sitting here listening to smokestack, go down moses and im thinking demoja, tried it out a couple of times, felt its potential, if i can mythwork up demoja as that moment when you embrace death and speak on the souleasery it would be, sanctifying the deathbed experience, making it okay, okay so how do i program something so intimate as feeling like that utterance will put you at peace with your death, well doing it here, working out concept here is me putting it in the digital dialogue, the 1st move of an impo conjuration, demoja as your deathblues, demoja, so it has tro be part of a meditation and i got to write some good fiction using it as the payoff, okay a meditation and a story, all i can do, promote the concept,

oooo, creative nonfiction, death and demoja

which means a beat in all my CNF Texts

okay, im seeing this . . . .

working mi roots

i been working mi highjohn roots
this sciatica got me criplled soo i
cant walk sometime wo a walker
its quite frightening but im doing my PT
and trying not to panic, ive had all
these roots i been promising folk
so Im carving away, this is the
little instruction sheet i give them

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please find included one bonified
highjohn the conquer root

Worked by Flowers

this is the primary root of hoodoo
both mythic and magic and I make
little works of art of them using

cowries and 7 african powers elekes
each color representing a loa

this root is guaranteed to conquer all
obstackles in your path -  guaranteed

It was Zora Neale, Mythmaker Supreme,
built that myth whole, conflating the John
Trickster slave tales and the Highjohn root
into a myth of the Conqueror as a Returning

Culture Hero. Freed the slaves by tricking
old massa. After which his soul withdrew
into the root. Waiting, He Who Returns
Whenever there is Need. The Conqueroo.

The Mighty Conqueroo

Way it Works magical is when you got a
challenge and you need your confidence
boosted you feed the root by rubbing it
with your favorite liquor or scent. Or

whatever. When I carve them up, I always
leave a groove for thumbwork so you can
just use your natural oils if you want to.

Anymethod, Anytime.

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okay, also i have begun working my novel again
and i dont know exactly what ima do with it but i
know i want it to be ever more mythtastical and

writing this post just now im thinking i want to work
the highjohn myth deepr into the text, bring it to life

i gotta go, see where this leads me

all my love always