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Seven Curses

My little sister had a glass of
No doubt a of wine too many
"I bet he's out right now with his Nazi
That's right, I it, that's what she is, and when he
saunters back 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 in her eye when she'd smirk
"Since how you feel, I know what to do
Make sure she gets fixed she takes him from you."

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

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

Charlatan,
Fraud bitch whose Greek was bad and English was worse
I held tight to my

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

Madame to corner
And her shawl,
Uncovered a dusty old crystal

I peered in myself

Somewhere on love seat, my husband was there
court to his mistress and stroking her hair
I saw it for
"I can't believe it!" I
Madame Maria said, "Well, I had a
So before you in, I prepared half a potion

Now you must do the other
I you a list
You must get seven part-silver made special out of bullet bits by some Pollock I know in Evergreen Park
And dip them in the potion and 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 dozen crabapples that fell off a raggedy old tree right in the southwestern 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 thermometer they through the north-facing doors
To the left by the boys in the lobby of the Monadnock building!
And be late, for you must get the silver out of the teeth of one George Karmalitis
Who as we speak lies dead under a 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 down the street
And the children 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 soon be his
And I did him, as I had every right to
And I'd put on my best dress and go dance at all the dances

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

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

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

And I was happy, very simply
Do you it
A modest young woman's contentment
It's probably a day, and I think it was
The birds chirping
And I felt I was dancing on air
But not very far off the
I wonder if I knew even then things wouldn't always be perfect
That one day he'd seek solace in the of another woman
And that to win him back, to win him back, I'd have to do

3:11!, 3:12!, 3:13!
On a hot August night is asleep
But the were watching, witching 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, sweet
Let water react and turn the curses to fact and come true
And do

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

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

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

And as the clock eight the next morning
My husband was next to me with a smile on his
And I looked, no hairs on his pajamas
And it was as if I had been awakened from a bad