Marie Devers

When I think about my destiny, that cloudy cool mirage,1
The options and the chances overlap in a collage.2

I sometimes spend an afternoon in dreams of come what may,3
A changeable amusement, better than any matinee.4

Ambitious as I am, there is so much that I foresee,5
I’m writing seven million drafts of my biography.6

Youth is like a blindfold to the life I’ve yet to meet,7
I can’t make out the future with my life so incomplete.8
Why does the author call her destiny that cloudy cool mirage?
A) because the author needed a word that would rhyme with "collage"
B) because the author wanted to use a simile so the passage would seem more "poetic"
C) because the author feels that her future is hazy, uncertain, and slightly unreal
D) because the author is certain that her future is going to be bright and positive

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