A quick addition to stream of consciousness POV Part 7

6/5/2025 last few days have been working through random words given by other subs at Edith Bow's Marvelous POV workshop

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Part 7 of A Good Teacher Points To Their Life and in this, YOU see You; THE ROOM -- FROM Edith Bow’s SoC HOP 
WORDS decanted by Edward Marlo Ruiz of Pine Box Readings & poetatowritingcollective: pepper, lighter, guard


Don’t pretend to know
what happened, don’t let your
PARENTS fear infest the miracle 
of your story, your cosmos, which
exists THIS once and only for you (IT)
doesn’t need inherited ignorance
to besmirch your carefully constructed
WORLD, suspended here among 8 BILLION
         +stars

you’d heard he/she was a trickster, but otherwise
no communication would happen, you’d heard she/he
would give you exactly what you asked for, and 

SOMETIMES

if you were honest about ‘just passing’ thru this life
entering through one door, crossing THE ROOM
and exiting through the other, THEY would give
you, what you needed while passing through 

AND

you asked a friend of a friend 
who saw your desperation, who referred you
to a Padrino, who referred you to a Manbo
Who looked at what your eyes said you wanted
and took you behind the curtain and over tea
told you of 

Legba and Eshu and Elegua and Elegbara

what to do and what not to

then off to the crossroads, behind the racetrack
MIDNIGHT, and you let your GUARD down, despite
the rustle in the bramble, the hoot in the tree, and
The CREEK/CREEK sounding like footsteps, outside
your childhood  bedroom door, a CREEK/CREEK
when they were sneaky
                                      so he 
                            would come, would know 
how desperate you were, and you left

A LONG RED HOT PEPPER, the biggest cigar
you could find and a LIGHTER, a bottle of rum
and, a Saint Anthony candle, stuck 
in the mud 
                  so it wouldn’t explode

                        FLAME FLICKERS

and you asked and you asked and you asked
and watched the shadows move, until the one
under the CLASSIFICATION: NIGHT TREE

seemed to nod in agreement

despite the adventure -- you fell fast asleep
when you got home and the NEXT DAY, nothing

                          CHANGED

nor the day after, or after or after until a vague disappointment
settled in, and later, and later, yet it was forgotten

SO WHY, you ask, ARE YOU BRINGING IT UP NOW?

and we wanted to remind you this is a sort of anniversary
dividable by 3, we’re sure if you care to remember and

YOU’VE GOTTEN everything you wanted, 
everything that seemed  impossible then and we’re here to
REMIND YOU, to say THANK YOU For EVERY DEAL


YOU’VE MADE

this is what the gods, spirits, ancestors of this particular

MANIFESTATION (if they’re ‘real’) want from you, 
an occasional and HEARTFELT

appreciation.

See y’all tomorrow! Much love,

Con/Jur/d, 6/5/2025