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Just Another Cassandra
Rebecca Lowry
Poet, Priestess, Prophetess, Whore
all in a day’s work for a woman
who in the end is just another Cassandra.
Just another pretty face
with a voice that can’t help but tell the truth
about you and him and her and them and us.
Who can’t escape the truth of herself.
Once upon a time
all of those old vices were something sacred.
Now sacred is trying to convince ourselves we’re gods
by collecting disciples into our temples.
Poets are scorned as blowhards
Priestess’ are just high maintenance
Prophetess’ are just bitches to be slapped down.
Whores are just another place to hang your hat.
All cursed like Cassandra, by the new god Society.
Cassandra
one woman who saw the fall of a city.
There are so many more of us with eyes to see,
how great then, is the fall to come?
Which of us will die on the walls in battle,
which of us will ride away with the invaders
which of us will gouge out her eyes,
rip out her throat,
to keep from screaming aloud the dark we see building?
Each of us fighting our own little battles,
teaching our daughters to bear the curse.
Not realizing we are apprenticing them to our trades.
Poets, priestesses, prophetesses, whores...
just a few more Cassandras.
Ready for sacrifice on the next generations altar.
