All Oracles Are Cassandras

Ignore Them. Please.

All Oracles Are Cassandras. Ignore Them. Please.

I am the winged shadow

telling you to ignore me,

but not yourself.

“At your peril,”

I squeak,

“Attend to thyself.”

Do the invisible work

Of reading and writing and living

For yourself.

Build and share

a sim

of that life.

Vouchsafe remembrance.

Observe and smell and listen and touch and taste

it

Because it is this

Brittle

W…