7222. HERE'S A STORY

HERE'S A STORY

So, I was born 9/29/49. A long

time later, a gypsy lady on Lexington,

telling me my fortune, said 'those

numbers are awesomely auspicious.'

Then she went on about the trailing strings 

of 9's, adding the number together, and then 

as a whole, etc. The usual twenty-dollar stuff.

I said back: 'Awesomely auspicious? Seems

more to me as 'awfully suspicious'.

Never brought me a God-damned

thing.' She grinned a Gypsy grin,

and with cigarette smoke coming

out her teeth, simply said, 'My son,

you are just looking in all the

wrong places.'