Pangs of birth less
than Palms read
A crony one eyed man
Read mine
Declared a cursed birth
And so events bizarre
held palm shaped ends
My faulty palm lines
crisscrossed
Killed kin
troubled a friend
broke maternal uncle's big toe
an aunt's left foot
lost a nephew's tooth
A sibling's lost luck
A cousin's wife missing
All rolled on my palm
And the crony astrologer
Run down
By car, palm drunk
died palm wisdom
Clutched
perhaps his was just
specialized study
not the last
his research advanced
In those who dig
the origins
of a cursed birth.
