CASSANDRA

Needle thin, silvikrin, silver slithers,
Born with a Gemini moon and a silver spoon,
Turtle neck, tortoise neck, Taurus neck,
The words of a dead man ratified in the living.

Biblical faces fading into spaces,
Different races in localised places,
Pencils, stencils and utensils,
Obstetrics to cure all your ills.

Pink roses popping out my eyes,
Words wind up my head with lies,
Purple streaked with yellow skies,
My love she lays down my head with sighs.