As Venus stations
Retrograde in Scorpio,
And Mercury enters the
Shadow phase in the same sign
I ask myself,
What could possibly
Go wrong?
Something about
Missing 100% of the
Baseball hoops that you
Never field goal into space
I suppose that if she were
Reading this,
It’d be easy enough
For her to just
Pretend she never
Even saw it
Maybe it would
Make her smile
And that’d be okay
There’s no harm in that,
A simple compliment
Maybe she would even feel
Safe enough, comfortable enough,
To say that she appreciated it
Nothing dramatic would happen
She’d get to feel nice,
I’d get to save face,
We’d both go on about our lives
Or in the very
Best case scenario,
Maybe it would
Make her feel
So good
That she’d use
That number
She’d text
Or call
We could go out,
Get to know each other
But I guess we’ll never know,
Because I’m far too smart
To do something as stupid
As post this
Online, ⠀
On the internet,
Where everyone
Could see it⠀
Not in this impossible-to-navigate
Modern world, where there’s
No such thing as an appropriate
Time or place to flirt with a girl
⠀
I’d look like ⠀
A goddamn fool
No, I’m just gonna
Play it safe
Treat this like a
Private journal entry
Let no one else
Ever read it
Oops.
I accidentally hit the ⠀
Publish button
Well, now I
Definitely
Look like ⠀
An idiot
I guess it’s a
Good thing
I’m used
To that
©2026 Kevin Trent Boswell
