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Soothsayer with Oil from Jerusalem

Matthew Guzman

I went to a fortune teller,
a mystical woman cloaked in
a thin faded moo-moo,
her mustache of grey sprigs
like the gnarled twists
of an ancient tree.

She spread the cards upon
the table –
told me about the demons
surrounding my love life,
said even if I found “the one,”
it wouldn’t last.

She offered to help me –
“This is special oil from Jerusalem,” she said,
“it costs two dollars for
every pound you weigh.”
Yes, for two-hundred-and-sixty dollars
she said she could fix everything.

I told her I was a poor man,
and then she offered
the cure for half-price.
I walked out just as I had walked in,
damned.

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