timing

I know that I posted a poem yesterday, but this one is too funny to keep to myself.  Happy weekend!!

Summer mornings in the garden

the horoscope this morning
really put me on my guard,
sent the adrenalin coursing
through my veins,
as it predicted a crucial confrontation
that would require all the will and
ingenuity that i could muster …

until i remembered i was looking at
a week-old student newspaper.

"timing is everything" by Gerald Locklin from Poets and Pleasure Seekers. © Spout Hill Press, 2015.