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Setting- Writing Workshop with Betts Week 3

@bettsfic ask us to figure out a place we love and make three public + private facts.

NON-FICTION- I thought of private memories as a child to a place I love. Can you figure out the place or why it is loved, across time?

A common night, in an old hot summer. A boy holds his mother's hand, on an overpass to trees. The boy saw moonlight on the Harlem Strait, a cool breeze hit his smiling face. His mother snapped her fingers, shaking her head side to side, and the boy couldn't recognize why. Then, he heard trees speak like happy piano keys, and his smile widened. Now among the trees, he saw members of his people: sitting down on the grass, relaxed, drinking, smoking, dreaming. The trees were still speaking, and the boy's mother said: "That is Billy Taylor, I wish I knew how it would feel to be free."

And the boy side his mother saw his father sitting past the trees, on chairs that look like funny creatures with skin full of pebbles in varying colors. They all sat. The boy's parents kissed, or talked, or looked at him playing around, like loving spouses do. A musical stage at the heart of this space between the trees was visible. The music was different now. His father said:" Miles, miles, yeah, so what"

The boy watched his father and decided to snap his fingers too.

"Yeah, yeah": said the boy. His mother watched them both and smiled. Only nine minutes seem an eternity: in the trees, amidst the broken cool breeze, alongside your people; they're relaxing, the afros shimmying, bald headed sisters smiling, everybody you see emitting a quiet vibe some call laughing, in the dark. While the boy was smiling, eyes closed, his parents talked. And, the father waited with personal items while the boy side mom got codfish. The boy waited: all day, all week, all month, all year, for this. The codfish was at the side, where the vendors reside. The trees spoke a song with improvisations from crickets the boy cognized, but whose name he didn't remember. Maybe not from youthful carefree, but the smell that filled the walk side his mother with ease. They reached the codfish, bought some, ate a little, returned to the boy's father, and enjoyed the remaining evening. And many more evenings the boy would have, until… no more. No violence or raptures caused said end. Harlem plus all in it moved on, which time demand everywhere. And now the former boy, a common man living in a place only the same in name, hold in his soul: the smell of codfish from a street vendor, the moon light on the Harlem Strait, the sounds of Jazz in everything, the love his parents reared in him, to goals far from Grant's tomb or the trees about it. For his home hasn't moved on in his heart. His home will always be the Harlem of yore.

FICTION- Harlem is where the Harlem Lindy hop, that most people view as the sole Lindy hop dance comes from. This is part of the fictional world I started from the first workshop.

READ IT The Lindy Flops from Richard Murray by HDdeviant on DeviantArt

POEM- use public knowledge- first Black representative of NYC was from Harlem of yore

Not the first Not the only But what could had been

Like the man A preacher man The first Black council

Communal An advocate Wasted in D.C.

Imagine If he mayor What New York would be

For all folk Not just for Blacks The hope could had been

Not the first Not the only But what could had been

EXPERIMENTAL - View from a honeysuckle tree that grew in the Harlem of yore

Grow Yes slow From the low Concrete I sew My flowers scent, tow The humans at the bow Said words through seasons I know

Again, and again, the poem flows in my veins. IT is my only companion among the sensations that live by me. The cold one I slowly eat through is unresponsive, crude. The little starlight ones, landing on me, seem to enjoy my company. Though they never reply to me. The sparkles at my roots. Help nourish me but I never hear them speak, just an electric chattering. Only all types of sensations about me. The wildest frightens me. Zipping by in horde like numbers. How do my flowers survive from my limbs, exposed to such comings and goings? But I know my flowers do and I too survive. And in my age, I fear not the sudden death, that is inevitable among those such as me. I listen to my cyclic poem, the only thing that makes me not completely alone.

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I want to show you who I can be Proving myself to you Will bring so much joy Into my restless heart I want to look into your eyes Tell you that I missed you Tell you that I'm thankful for your every breath I want to grow with you This may not be permanent But, I know it has potential To become something beautiful I want to push your buttons See how high you can fly You deserve a break To not have to fight anymore Never lose faith in me All I do is for you I know I'm only a man But, I have so much to give -R.M.

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Richard Murray Centos 2023 a poetry book, free top read, all inspirations are cited https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/richard-murray-centos-2023 Did you hear of Cento poems before you read this post? have you ever bought a poetry book?

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Paying Attention- Writing Workshop with Betts Week 2

@bettsfic asks to notice three things.

In Nonfiction, write about your day and pull a story out of three things

In Poetry, place three things coming together

In Fiction, the first incites incident, second in the middle, end with third.

Abstract, use a stylistic change, write sentence fragments, no verbs.

NONFICTION

First Thing

The itsy bitsy little white spider, which only comes at night, keeps trying to web my computer. I will not kill it, though I can. I can't. It's trying like I am trying. It isn't harming anyone as I am not harming anyone. I admit, I hope to see it tonight, like an old friend. The first night I don't see it I will wonder where it went, maybe behind the desk to die, maybe it's too busy making love, or perhaps savaged by some bigger little creature. … I didn't see the little white spider tonight. I may have seen its killer who needed to go from one side of the room to the other, which I didn't get in the way of or ask his activities prior to.

How often are life forms harmed for wanting to use something available? But because of their looks or some perceptions, from the haves, to said life forms, the have nots, are denied? Human history says infinite times, though it isn't the way of the inhuman. A simple act of kindness can go a long way is the saying.

Second Thing

The insect that I realized I saw for weeks, maybe months, hanging on the net outside my building, the net is for construction, in the same spot is called a spotted lanternfly. I searched NY1 and found the name on the first go. The city has given all citizens a license to kill… oh James. Was it goading me, of course not. The tree around the building, perhaps my plants if it can reach them, is its target(s). Even absent the net it can't reach my plants… I checked. Of course, it is gone now, and I see each hole in the net, not quite Swiss cheese but aging. Where is that thing? … I went into the kitchen with the sun back in its bed, it's back.

The human community has many in it that speak of equality, or nonviolence, while preaching violence or inequality. The fiscally wealthy or more than average knowledgeable human is supposed to live peacefully or integrated to the fiscally poor or uncommonly ignorant human. But not the fiscally poor or ignorant non-human. The most challenging bias is the one that doesn't deny race while demanding an inescapable utilization of race.

Third Thing

I noticed today how little half and half is put into black coffee in stores, bodegas, delis. Ground coffee beans brewed is pretty strong, a dab of half and half isn't doing much. It isn't effective. Black coffee with half and half means and an off black, not pitch black. I wonder how many times I got my relations Black coffee with half and half and these stores gave me black coffee with a dab of nothing. My chemistry memory says subsaturated.

How often are we cheated in plain sight? How many pennies have stores acquired in selling 99 cent items absent giving a penny back? Is it fiscal prudence to be part of such activity? Does pax or peace financially derive from what irregularities any community allows? Labor from the enslaved? Real estate sales of stolen land? Computer aided financial manipulations at such a grand speed or inhuman speed, the rules of human markets are unimportant, while still touted as essentials? How can people online have millions of followers while only tens of engagements to their post? Cheats in plain sight are as old as humanity. Can humanity mature beyond them?

Story Concept

A deli worker is always cheap with the half in half whenever he makes coffee. One day he is startled by a little itsy bitsy white spider, meaning him no harm, on a web aside the coffee machine, based on the worker's neglect. The worker swipes at the spider, destroying its web, and injures it. The spider seeks to prove its decency to itself and learns, from the insect network, that a killer planthopper has chosen the deli workers home to make a feast. But, the corpses of the Killer Planthopper give off a toxic fume that will kill humans. How will the crippled little white spider make it from the deli to the deli worker's home and cause the killer plant hopper to move on or desist?

Other Things My Attention Noted Later

Some days later I realized something in a dialog side a fellow artist on DeviantArt. The computer programs commonly, while falsely called A.I. (artificial intelligence) don't seem to make fractals or are engineered to make fractals. Fractals are arithmetic equations converted into visual patterns. I find it interesting that the fractal market doesn't seem to be saturated with content from said programs. Plus, I saw some white east Asians celebrating something concerning Buddhism, giving out beads. I didn't even check out what it involved, through a search.

POETRY

The Spider and The Chuki smelled a certain Coffee by HDdeviant on DeviantArt

FICTION

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Sarah-s-Part-Times-from-Richard-Murray-979135650

STYLISTIC CONSTRAINT

I converted other things I noted into notation

fractals(output(A.I.))!=fractals(computer programs) currentdate=date; holidays(buddhist, date)=hustle

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Had great fun. I like the concept that this was made in october. It wasn't something an artist could prepare for months ahead.

A KidoWaum , a little creator that lives among its kin in a Chomba. This particular member is a family man, but like most KidoWaum, including bachelors, he only wants to live in his Chomba, traveling in it to wherever Nature's balance takes his people. As mechanics KidoWaum's are naturally levelheaded and honest.

Now let's get a gist of our KidoWaum's life...

Our Kidowaum is going off to work. The Chomba, his family side other KidoWaum families live in is photographed in the background. He sees off his family from their sub sector, and takes the gyro to a sector … which leads to a story for another time

Hope you had fun, remember to see all the cool beast using the hashtag, build a beast below. if you enjoyed my storyboardfilm, use the obvious hashtag below

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Post Blog

If you like to color, here is a coloring page

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Sunset Children Stories A Collection of Modernized Fables and Tales. The Tales are based on Black tales from the Americas, Asia, Africa or Europe. The Fables are based on Aesop. No one will enjoy every fable or tale in the collection, but everyone will fall in love with one.

My newsletter is free to join, search RMNewsletter and use the over-blog link. https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/sunset-children-stories

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Kahuere of Ampraeh - calligraphy plus poetry The poem is entitled:  Xicotencatl the younger's last dream #rmaalbc#artist #richardmurray #richard Audiobook https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/xicotencatl-the-younger-s-last-dream Book cover color version https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Kahuere-of-Ampraeh-Color-939576715 Book cover black and white version- COLOR IT!! https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Kahuere-of-Ampraeh-BW-939431719

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KWL Live Q&A – Kobo Plus US & UK Expansion: an AMA with the KWL Team 12pm EST or UTC-5 Kobo Plus is now in the USA so for those who are interested in my work or other Kobo writers, you can join Kobo plus and authors can get paid by accessing and reading their work. Think of it like streaming for reading books. VIEW for free- click read more to see it all https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2315&type=status #rmaalbc #artist #richardmurray

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Title: Joys of one North or somewhere ArtisT: Richard Murray A set of Haiku's built from the aesthetic of Wabi Sabi from Nippon. https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/joys-of-one-north-or-somewhere #rmaalbc #artist #richardmurray

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Princess Candace has a Monster Partner, it is of the species GanYok, a shell snake. If you want to see more of princess candace please use the following links. Princess Candace making her favorite spell https://richardmurrayhumblr.tumblr.com/post/688374516911669248/enjoy-princess-candace-using-her-shoka-to-make-her Coloring page to the Monster Partner https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Coloring-page-A-Moment-In-the-LEgendary-Bloody-Me-927346301 Princess Candace with her brother image gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81075023/princess-candace-prince-menelik

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Title: The King Of Paradise

Description: Another telling of a common legend. The old ruler maintains the best of times against the cruel intentions of those whose heart is touched by evil from the past.

If you enjoy the audio excerpt , consider the complete audio version or storyboard film or text below, a never resist a tip Full Audio https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/the-king-of-paradise-1 Storyboard https://richardmurrayhumblr.tumblr.com/post/683171303617921024/title-the-king-of-paradise-description-another Text https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-King-Of-Paradise-913395528

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Bedtime with Sudowoodo Plushie coloring page, done as part of a charity, read the details for the reading list and colored versions and join my newsletter, linked in the description https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Deviantart-plushie-coloring-page-944022788 #rmaalbc   #artist  #richardmurray

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My works- Your Fired + Ila IZni + some drawing works are in the latest edition of Dreadful Tales https://www.deviantart.com/leothefox/journal/Dreadful-Tales-no-41-935014984