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‘Twas an ordinary day in an ordinary park When an old woman cam up to me She said “Lend me your ear and I’ll show you the future For only a very small fee” So I gave her a dollar and a tentative smile As a liquor flask peered through her gown “Come closer my dear for your future awaits” Then she laid out the cards all faced down I saw a man smelling roses on Wall Street Below a suit hanging above on a noose Graffiti on the wall next to the plummeting Dow Read: “This is what faith produced” I saw the man from Oz selling promises Behind a billboard with Photoshop skin His magazine telling us who we should be “Here are your cheekbones, your nose and your chin.” Card three was a woman with a cardboard sign Reading: “The Anti-Christ is here” While snorting a line of cocaine on a bible Reality is what she feared I saw an hour-glass flanked by a tombstone resting Atop a plasma television set Where a family consumed cheap fast-food While being trapped in the media’s net The last card was the strangest of all A long white beach with a message in the sand And footsteps leading into the sea Four words: “Which one are you?” The old lady gathered her cards And returned them to the top of the deck “I never bother to shuffle them,” she said Nor would I bother to check
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