Cassandra

by Dennis O’Driscoll

        after Hans Magnus Enzensberger

For years, all we showed
              her for her pains
were two deaf ears,
              as she fumed over
global warming,
              emitting dire predictions
in her smoky voice:
              catastrophic floods, etc.,
high-rise high-rent condos
              marinating in brine . . .

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