Your Horoscope

Be brave today, thing made of flesh as you decay.



 



Be kind and try



to spend less money.  Try



to avoid



conflict with a Pisces



 



in a parking lot



at night.



 



He might have a knife.



 



Or, if you are not the type



to find yourself arguing in a parking lot at night, try



not to complain to the neighbors



 



about the noise, for



you may need those neighbors



when the water heater explodes.  They



 



may arrive with towels



and buckets in your basement, just



 



as you may find yourself



on their front porch, bearing



death’s casserole one warm morning in July, after



 



the unthinkable.



The Pisces.



The parking lot. Their



 



beautiful teenage boy, who



 



even as a baby



seemed afraid of nothing, listened



to music too loud



 



and to no advice.



 



A whole



sky full of stars



reflected in his eyes



 



as on the cool blank edge of a knife.