you will notice dear reader i did not really process this last post
i am so eager to finish the draft of the hoodoo way so i can
get to novel, which has started to percolate in my head
ima go wild this draft, in past i was hindered by determination
to show readers how a real hoodoo roll but since ive done
that in the memoir i can let my fantasmical flag fly, i am
going to trip out this draft and having to restrain myself
cause i got to finish the draft of THWay, always finish
the draft, if i abandon it halfway i got to start all over
when i start again and if i die tomorrow it joins the
uncompleted works pile, always finish the draft
i spent last week getting the stories together
so im behind schedule,, pg 29 of 97, i write single
space so thats really about 60 of 200,
so 60 pages to do, i think 10 a day is maybe too much but if i
can pull off 10 a day i wiull be thru by end of month or so
i like that, full court press rick, lets
separate the writers from the dilettantes
im feeling that new novel draft
really really feeling it
one more round, lord
ima take a quick stab at testifying why the clark univ performance went so well, 1st it was georgene bess invited me, georgene and me was babys in the tradition back when we met and she is one of the few scholars on the planet who has given me some lit crit love, so that she invited me to a conference called black boy love I was already primed but then I get to campus and its gloriously black, earnest black students filled with a discernable pride of place, I get there and the old road warrior aint as resilient as he used to be, I pass on going to campus then changed my mind and caught a cab and was glad I did so cause I caught hd hunter, met him as he was going in and im thinking he mighty young and I catch a hint of gold grill and im like kinda dismissive but boy got on stage and showed up, I mean impressive and engaging, a damn wunderkind, with absolutely beautiful vibrations, and afterward im like a fanboy, my brother my brother, and there was this brother there with a hat so pretty I told him he need to be careful I don’t snatch it off his head, turned out he was the morning reader my day, datch, who know everybody I know, we come from the same line of struggle and he know a good brim is essential in public so by the time I took the stage I was in a downhome state of mind, like when I go home to the delta, I got diff masks for diff folk, reached in and it was the high hoodoo of memphis showed up, rickydoc waymaker, I got up there and commence to exhorting, which only happens when I do the delta, or one of the seven sisters of the south, memphis, atlanta, bham, new orleans et al, me and mi interviewer, brother rooks, was simpatico, mi girl adero was in the house, paul coates, I started feeding of the congregation they started feeding off me and mi new hand pan, with which I have established a mystical connection, just playing it is a true healing for mi, been doing what I call meditation blues on it, it was a good gig, we hit the zone - demoja
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