STAR-CROSSED

                        You wonder why
                        I seem to have
                        A personality
                        That's manic-depressive?

WELL . . .

        It'sbecauseIwasbornbetweenJune22andJuly22,whichmeans

                        I'm a Cancer!

       Tunedintothemoonlooneytoone.

We are known to be
                       zany
                       motherly
                       romantic
                       frugal      
                       sensitive
                       difficult
                       creative
                       sentimental
                       argumentative
                       weepy

FOR PETE'S SAKE! WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM SOMEBODY

Whose name, for the general public, means a destructive
      disease, characterized by abnormal cellular
      development . . .

Whose crustaceous symbol in singular means
      an ill-tempered, querulous person . . .

Or in plural suggests
      a breed of louse transmitted through
      sexual promiscuity . . .

And finally, whose astrological sign
      is a sixty-nine,
      LYING DOWN?

                       Is it any wonder
                       The newspaper
                       Refers to us
                       Euphemistically as

                       "Moon Children"?

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A Poetry Chapbook
by
Honora Finkelstein

© 1997

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