Psychic Cleaners, 75 West El Camino Real & Bay Street, Mountain View

Psychic Cleaners Psychic Cleaners $2.50— sign at the corner of Bay Street near my apartment in Mountain View but not visited in two years. Curiously, I opened their creaky door— "Come in" she waved me to her table with a giant crystal ball at the center. "Horoscope? Palm Reading? Tarot Cards?" She told me her chakra cleansings— a girl's throat chakra cleared for opera, a hedge-fund manager's third eye opened for faster and better pickings of stocks. A monk requested crown chakra cleansing— She confessed "If I could do that I'd become a Buddha myself with millions of followers." She asked me "What can I do for you?" I came for your $2.50 cleaning pointing to the sign outside her store. "Ha!" she laughed, "that's the price pressing a shirt in the Dry Cleaners next door!" I complained her room is too smoky— "Misty!" she countered, "We psychics like to work in a mist." I joked whether steam was piped in from her next-door neighbor. I told her the word "fog" (nebbia) appeared four times in Dante's Inferno, five times in Purgatorio, but none in Paradiso— so enlightened eyes are not dimmed by mist. I offered her an Abe for our session but her consultation fee is a Ben. She said "We're even" when I gave her the lyrics to Mick Jagger's "Fortune Teller"— "I said I didn't see nobody Why'd she made a fool of me... While looking at the fortune teller I fell in love Now I'm a happy fella I'm married to the fortune teller I'm as happy as I can be Now I get my fortunes told for free."   — Peter Y. Chou       Mountain View, 5-16-2016

Psychic Cleaners $2.50 sign corner of Bay Street, Mountain View Chakra Chart Seven Chakras of Yoga Angela's Cleaners ($2.50 Cleaners) 75 West El Camino Real Mick Jagger singing "Fortune Teller" (Video Recorded August 16, 1963)