Mars made yet another
Attempt on my life today
I was at work, and
Starting to get a bit stir crazy
So, I took a break and went for a walk
I walked up the hill,
The same hill that I walk up and down
Every day… without dying
It rains a lot here, almost all the time
So, I’m used to the hill being muddy,
Slick, just a bit less than safe
I’m used to planting each step very carefully
But today, just as I was taking my break,
Stretching my legs, climbing up and down
The same hill that I never die on,
Mars was changing zodiac signs,
You know, up there, in the big, blue sky thingie
As soon as he did that,
He was automatically squaring
My natal Mars position
Mars square natal Mars is, um… challenging
Seeing his moment of opportunity,
He tripped me
I went sliding down this muddy,
Goddamn hill, the same way I never do
Mars is exactly square (in my birth chart)
To my natal Sun
He’s an out-of-sect malefic for me
So, it’s hardly the first time
He’s tried to take my life
He doesn’t hate me or anything;
It’s just that he looks at me, and
Thinks to himself,
“I really should go ahead and murder him.”
So far, he’s failed every time
Maybe he isn’t really
Trying very hard,
I don’t know for sure
It’s tempting to think that maybe
He’s not that good at his job;
But, I know better than that
I think he’s just pretending to try to kill me
I had to go into the bathroom,
Lock the door, take off my boots,
Remove everything from my pockets,
Take off my jeans, and then
Wash them in the sink
I wrung them out, as best I could
Then, I put everything back on, and
Went out and stood by
A shitty little space heater,
Looking like I had pissed myself
It took two hours for my jeans to dry
This is why I’m pretty sure
That Mars only wants me to think
That he wants me dead
He just finds it entirely too amusing
To almost murder me
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Kevin Trent Boswell 