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Created on: September 26, 2010 Last Updated: October 13, 2010
Can the cards predict?
The feelings I contradict
I had such a fright
When she laid the cards down right
The cards laid read
What shouldn't have been said
Of a past life I try to hide
Where I had left my pride
Sitting down in the psychic's chair
What a fool I was to not be scared
So now I must contend
With wounds that will not mend
All because of tarot cards
Their knowledge should be a reward
But instead it lies as a curse
That couldn't be any worse
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