Thursday, August 2, 2018

№ 391: An Apprehensive Pensive Prediction

Cassandra was a princess of Troy
who Apollo gifted with prophecy.
And everything she could foresee
was, invariably, right on the money.
Despite that, she never let
Apollo Phoebus “achieve” her.
Being a god, he — likely thinking it funny —
saw to it that no one believed her.
(I think this we might construe
as an early example of today's #MeToo.)

As you may surmise, I cannot prophesize
anything like a Cassandra.
What I can do — admit it, you KNEW! —
is indulge a small talent for poetical dander.

I predict victory for Trump/Pence 2020
and the end of U.S. democracy,
which will be replaced, after the coup,
by a Mike Pence Holy Theocracy.
(Mike Pence, I hear, believes he's God's plan
for turning us into a bigger Iran.)