Planets in Detriment, or is It the World?
Is there a planet for lament? For anguish?
Pisces is sobbing in a hotel bathroom with Saturn embarrassed
to be with her in her grief, wanting to flood all the sinks
in all the other bathrooms. Venus likes to wear sequins, a strapless
ballgown, scent of blossoms following her everywhere
but she chafes in the armor Aries forced her to put on, says
what she doesn’t mean, and loudly. Now she’s going back
to the party. She’s unhappy but knows her work boots look sexy.
Jupiter in Gemini is watching the news on his phone, talking
and talking to any willing ear about what he thinks it all means—
the bitter conflicts, the torture, starvation, refugees, orphans,
widows, burning villages, cities flooded, the pretty girl
in armor, the crying he hears coming from the bathroom.
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