five cents
i only read futures I don't evaluate them.
the future is always nonsense until it becomes the past.
tomorrow will be like today
and the day after tomorrow
will be like the day before yesterday
i see your remaining days
as a tideous colllection of hours
full of useless vanities
you will think no new thoughts
and you will forget what little you have known.
older you will become
but not wiser
stiffer
but not more dignified
childless you are
and childless you will remain
of that suppleness you once commanded in your youth
of that strange simplicity that once attracted men to you
neither endures
nor shall you recapture them
mirrors are often ugly and mean
when you die
you will be buried and forgotten.
and that is all
and for all the good or evil,
creation or destruction your living might have accomplished
you might just as well never have lived at all.
i'm sorry but you see it is my curse to tell the absolute truth.
the future is always nonsense until it becomes the past.
tomorrow will be like today
and the day after tomorrow
will be like the day before yesterday
i see your remaining days
as a tideous colllection of hours
full of useless vanities
you will think no new thoughts
and you will forget what little you have known.
older you will become
but not wiser
stiffer
but not more dignified
childless you are
and childless you will remain
of that suppleness you once commanded in your youth
of that strange simplicity that once attracted men to you
neither endures
nor shall you recapture them
mirrors are often ugly and mean
when you die
you will be buried and forgotten.
and that is all
and for all the good or evil,
creation or destruction your living might have accomplished
you might just as well never have lived at all.
i'm sorry but you see it is my curse to tell the absolute truth.