Poems, Imitations & Translations

Saturday

Oresteia - Chorus (1)



Cassandra:

Cursed with prophecy
I’m forced to see
what’s past & what’s to come

No-one ever listens, though
A father fucks
his stepdaughter

then gets cold feet
What if she talks?
He listens to his PR man

& plots to kill her
If news leaks out
then contracts

could be compromised
The trouble is
she’s not his daughter

but she is his wife’s
not her sister’s
her

by-blow

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