Fortune Teller

She spent her life doing just the one thing, One thing that people payed for, The one thing nobody else could do… They’d pay to watch her perform, She’d tell them their future with a little tea leaf, She’d read the lines on their hand, Or she’d spread the cards from an old tarot deck, Revealing what the cards understand, And sometimes the news was full of good fortune, Sometimes it was filled in with dread, Sometimes the numbers were a little abstruse, And folks had to decode what was said. Either way, she made a fortune, from telling a fortune, For people who’d always confide, And tell them the things they needed to hear, To help clear and freshen their minds.