12 Reasons the Tea Leaves Might be Wrong
by Jayne Pupek


12 Reasons the Tea Leaves Might be Wrong

1. I have PMS and a migraine.
2. Diabetes runs in my family.
3. The fortune teller posesses overdue library books and parking tickets galore.
4. She wore rosehip perfume and yesterday's panties.
5. The leaves were meant to be read upside down.
6. I stayed up late reading Kurt Cobain's red spiral journal before planning my own suicide.
7 The cat slept at the foot of my bed. She's known to have seizures.
8. I masturbated. Twice.
9. My house is in Jupiter.
10. I lied when I said I could speak in tongues.
11. The stars weren't moving. The moon, uncooperative, as usual.
12. You swore you'd always love me. I believed.






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