After Mass and leaving the screenings at DitMak
I headed for Amoeba Records.
I
walked on Hollywood Boulevard
wearing
a stone-colored trench coat.
A
frazzled-looking woman
squatted
in front of a tarot shop.
She
stopped me, tasting diamonds,
and
cried out, “You need a reading.”
I
turned to her, our eyes meeting
for
a moment of mutual communion.
She
smiled, ravenous, like a cat.
She
didn’t perceive I read cards, too.
“You’re
an old soul,” she recited.
Many
times before, I was sure.
It’s
so seducing to evoke
the
utterly ego-stroking notion of,
“I
am wise. I am spiritual.
I
am above human suffering.”
Affronted,
deliberate,
I
leaned forward towards her,
a
force growing like a fist.
“You’re
a dark witch,”
I
blasted at her. And proceeded along
the
street, meeting two lovely
young
police officers. “You have
a
heck of a job,” I told them.
“Be
careful down here,”
one
said. How did he know?
Hollywood
can be heaven,
a
seat of history and dreams.
Or
hell, laden with false prophets
by
trade, on a Sunday.
© 2017 Jeanne Marie Spicuzza
© 2017 Jeanne Marie Spicuzza
Bio: Jeanne
Marie Spicuzza is
a writer, actress, filmmaker, painter and herbalist, and the founder
and CEO of Seasons & a Muse, Inc. Nominee and winner of various
awards, including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, the Golden Headset Award, the
National Organization for Women “Woman of the Year,” and the
Shepherd Express
Best Performance Artist of the Year, Jeanne Marie has toured
worldwide and is published in A
Gathering of Tribes,
Blue Fifth Review, The
Nervous Breakdown, poeticdiversity
and others. Her award-winning feature thriller, "The Scarapist,"
screened at festivals, markets and theatres internationally and is
currently out On Demand. She is in post-production of her next
feature film ‘Night Rain.” A mother and grandmother, Jeanne Marie
lives with her husband, Violent Femmes and BoDeans drummer and
composer Guy Hoffman, in Los Angeles. The family travels whenever
they can.
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