magic. crazy horse.
magic. crazy horse. a week ago. met a man. he told me to draw a frog.
ask someone in the frog shop to see the haida frog. again. each time i
see him he asks me. he invites me to part of the local mardi gras.
cafe brazil. the parade. we part. finally. visiting the frog shop. hes
checking one of his employees. telling him to pack up shop. then he
brings me upstairs. oldest apartment in america. so he says. upstairs.
talking. about frogs. indians. yoga. follow. breathe in. into the
apartment. its a large apartment. objects. collected objects. many
places. scattered everywhere. lining the walls. thrown across a desk.
he jumps. thoughtwise. here. this is a frog. and this. here. a
dolphin. take this. come here. look at this. no. in here. another
room. a study perhaps. more dolphins line the walls. he shows me a
stack of cards. not tarot. something else. words. phrases. written on
them. leading into something. fortune telling cards. he tells me the
room is a very powerful room. i believe. feel it in the room. i can
feel it all over new orleans even now. the voodoo of new orleans. we
leave the room. he gives me more cards to flip through. the circle.
unity. the sea. tranquility. peace. others. each card an object. an
idea. with meaning attached. its all in the cards. so he says. truest
saying. he hands me the mardi gras card. three lines. who you are.
your desires. your actions. i still wonder at its meaning. he hands me
cannabis necklaces. to sell. hows your money situation. here. five
dollars. here. two dolphins. place them on your pad when you draw. if
someone comes up. tell them you have one you can sell for ten dollars.
a tee-shirt. mardi gras. cannabis. wear one on mardi gras. if someone
asks. sell them this one for twenty. have you ever burned sage. no.
here. take this. wait. take this too. juniper. haida frog. frogs were
very powerful to some indian tribes. here. open your sketchbook.
stamps sketchbook. stamps some booklets. there are magic women youll
meet. beautiful women. if you find one. give her one of these. all
through your life. youre moving into circles where the money flows
easier and the women are all beautiful. there is such an intenseness
in the air. i believe things. some things. dolphins. there is a star.
sirius. youve heard of it. it has two planets which orbit it. on one
of those planets there may be aliens who are sending messages to the
dolphins to communicate with man. maybe. he smiles as he says this.
one knows he is playing. he truly means maybe. and yet he doesnt. ever
see the movie jfk. there were two oswalds. one was born here in new
orleans. the other was born in the baltic states. why he spoke perfect
russian. new orleans oswald was a yat. a poor guy raised in the new
orleans public school system. no way he could have spoken perfect
russian. he was an fbicointel agent. maybe involved in a plan to
squelch the civil rights movement. maybe killed martin luther king.
other oswald was a patsy. the one killed in dallas. who knows. time i
have to go he says. i pack up my stuff. leave the apartment. as i walk
outside. the square has changed. i can feel the voodoo. i look up into
second story windows wondering what goes on up there. perhaps someday
ill know.
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