oh, we Cassandra's of the world.
we need no one.
it is our greatest strength & our fatal flaw.
we are perfectly content going inside ourselves.
we are nomadic. we are emotionally nomadic. we are numb.
when we finally feel "love," we love with such fervor.
[you will have no better lover than a Cassandra.]
we find each other. we are drawn there; it is magnetic;
we can sniff it out in one another as dogs do.

you cannot get close to Cassandra's.
you cannot know us. itisnotpermissible.
you may think you can & we may tell you that you are.
but, you cannot, to (y)our dismay.

we devour people whole.
we collect we catalog we consume.
you cannot define decipher deter us.
and we. cannot. stop.
we try.
we fail.
wetrywefail.
but, oh, we try.

(we fail.)