Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Consumed by James Tate

Consumed 

Why should you believe in magic,
pretend an interest in astrology
or the tarot? Truth is, you are
 
free, and what might happen to you
today, nobody knows. And your
personality may undergo a radical
 
transformation in the next half
hour. So it goes. You are consumed
by your faith in justice, your
 
hope for a better day, the rightness
of fate, the dreams, the lies
the taunts—Nobody gets what he
 
wants. A dark star passes through
you on your way home from
the grocery: never again are you
 
the same—an experience which is
impossible to forget, impossible
to share. The longing to be pure
 
is over. You are the stranger
who gets stranger by the hour. 



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