2012/forecast

FORECAST

Since I read my astrological
forecast I’ve been feeling nervous.
It does not sound good.
Words like tension,
warnings like “could be the end.”
I have been teetering
there for six months,
or twenty years,
or always, depending
on whose counting.
Still it leaves me extra
shakey. My birthday month,
I’m always hoping for good news,
some glorious gift from the universe
which so far remains undelivered.
Which is what prompted me to buy
the fall fashion tome, something
I rarely do. I thought it might
be good to know what’s coming.
What is it that makes me be so
careless at this age. A reckless
kind of unthinking. When the day is
menacing enough, the morning.

8/18/2012?