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Seven Silver

My little sister had a of wine
No doubt a of wine too many
"I bet he's out right now with his whore
That's right, I said it, that's she is, and when he
Finally saunters at three or four,
Don't let him in, put the on the door."
But of I'd let him in, the jerk.

Now my silly sister went to some vlachos coffee-grind reader
Ad had a gypsy glint in her eye when she'd
"Since that's how you feel, I know to do
Make sure she gets fixed before she takes him you."

It's a hot August and my sister and I are creeping down south Halsted
Towards a storefront past a stoop and a moon
And a star and a placard that Madame Maria's.

"Tell me troubles,
But five first."
That's she said
And of course, I thought the

Charlatan,
Fraud gypsy bitch Greek was bad and English was worse
I tight to my purse

My sister did the and I looked down
And my foot and sort of twisted on one heel.

pointed to corner
And her shawl,
a dusty old crystal ball

I peered in despite

Somewhere on some seat, my husband was there
Paying court to his mistress and her hair
I saw it for
"I can't it!" I cried
Madame said, "Well, I had a notion
So before you came in, I prepared a potion

Now you must do the half
I you a list
You must get seven part-silver curses made special out of bullet bits by some Pollock I in Evergreen Park
And dip in the potion and drop them in Buckingham Fountain at 3:13 on Friday morning
And she'll be gone, you'll be rid of her!"

Quick, for the potion, we have to get three crabapples that fell off a raggedy old tree right in the southwestern corner of Columbus Park!
Faster, we have to go up to Caputo's Produce and Fruit on Harlem and get the garden snake that lives in the banana bin!
Hurry, we have to get the mercury out of the old they have through the north-facing doors
To the left by the shoe-shine in the lobby of the Monadnock building!
And don't be late, for you must get the out of the teeth of one George Karmalitis
Who as we speak lies dead a dirty wool blanket in the basement of the morgue of Laretto hospital
The teeth of a man killed by a jealous wife!

I always an old maid
I didn't always walk the street
And have the yell at me Spinny Spinny the Spinster
And try to the hat off my head
I had a fiancee, or he led me to believe I'd be his fiancee
And I did him, as I had every right to
And I'd put on my best and we'd go dance at all the dances

And I'd never let the from the barracks cut in
They'd out of Great Lakes, usually straight off the farm anyway
And I'd really let any of the country club beaus get a chance
Those cream-colored summer suits were never cut to my taste
And those Hyde Park fellas were out as a matter of course
I don't enjoy a man in red, so not maroon, that's for sure

I had eyes for my guy, see
But one night he had said he wouldn't be to take me
As he hurt his and had his arm in a sling
But I went anyway and saw him with another
And she was his ring

The silver still smelled and smelted down into the copper or lead or whatever else it was
And when the metal was soft and hot you'd engrave the curse into it with a stylus from an old whale bone
I thought for a second of what I write
Something a little different, but with the sort of spite
One of them asked panayia mou to make that blonde's hair fall out
The potion was ready at my apartment
And my sister and I and crossed ourselves when we dropped the curses in
And I of my husband
My and her
And I thought of me and him, of we were
I thought of our day

And I was happy, simply happy
Do you it
A modest woman's simple contentment
It's a sunny day, and I think it was
The were chirping
And I felt like I was on air
But not far off the ground
I wonder if I even then that things wouldn't always be perfect
That one day he'd solace in the arms of another woman
And to win him back, to win him back, I'd have to do this

3:11!, 3:12!, 3:13!
On a hot August night everyone is
But the crows were watching, and my temple was twitching
Twitch, twitch, twitch, twitch, twitch, twitch, twitch,
Fountain, sweet
Fountain, sweet
Let your water react and the curses to fact and come true
Fountain, sweet
Fountain, fountain
Let your water react and turn the curses to fact and true
And do

The we dropped them in, our hearts started to race
And a wind came up off the lake; make no mistake, we felt something out into the city
And I
And I
As I swept back somehow to Austin, I remember how
Scared of what I had
But terrified, I didn't get I had sought

Oh Jimmy, where you been so
Oh Jimmy, where you so long
Oh Jimmy, you been so long

Oh Jimmy, where you so long
Oh Jimmy, you been so long
Oh Jimmy, you been so long

And as the clock struck the next morning
My was next to me with a smile on his face
And I looked, no blond hairs on his
And it was as if I had awakened from a bad dream