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Shortly before the advent of 2023, I pulled the same Tarot card, always reversed, three times. It was the Three of Cups. The first time, it was greeted by a foreboding chorus of uh-oh's. The second time, a borrowed cat chose it for me. The third time, I knew it was coming, and had prepared myself to answer to the image: Wounds become scars, and scars tell stories of adventure.
On New Year's Day, I read Alice Notley's The Prophet, (1979), which starts with, "They say there is a dying star which is traveling in two directions. / Don't brood over how you may have behaved last night. If you / Can't remember that much about it, don't ask anyone else about it / Except a little, in case you were wonderful in your abandon. / Don't gloat if you were wonderful, for you have a hang...
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