She also knows scraps of Sanskrit and Japanese, which have proven useful at SugarHouse, Philly's very first casino, opened less than three years ago. Playing roulette, she has won up to $100 while chanting "sa ta na ma," thinking it meant, "all one none sum," although it really means, "birth, life, death, rebirth," as I would find out later, after googling. Sometimes she mumbled "nam myoho renge kyo." On full moons, people win more at casinos, she informed me. Perhaps this Pisces should also use a Magic Marker to scrawl "HOPE" onto her sneakers.
Magic incantations are as good as any, for we have no other plans. Desperate people will plead to the unseen and unprovable. Give us this day our three ounces, at least, and lead us not onto the no-fly list. In 2010, I witnessed a religious procession at San Francisco's Civic Center, with supplicants carrying this banner, "Praying the Rosary for America" As human efforts fail to solve America's key problems, we turn to God, through His Holy Mother, asking for His urgent help."
As we're making no efforts to solve any of our problems, we're muttering or shouting words that mean less and less. Amen.
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