STOP!

NEVER OPEN AFTER DARK!

run as fast as you can and don’t look back

[OK]

Question: do you go looking for other people’s mistakes

[a Medusa head lies dead or sleeping in a blood red ocean or desert 

larger than the horizon]

to avoid looking at your own?

[a group of men or many-headed Hercules stands in the foreground 

assessing her 

distance]

Answers, assorted:

THE VIRGO:

 you look for any excuse at all to like people who will never like you. I’m just

very gently

calling you out.

THE LEO: 

it’s important to remind everyone that you can be simultaneously hot and familiar 

with the AP style guide.

THE GEMINI: 

it’s not a nightmare in the sense that you’re thinking, but it is medically 

disgusting –

THE SCORPIO: 

– and for that reason, we had to chop you.

See Also:

Replace [people] with “Snake People”

Replace [now] with “Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks”

See Also:

you’re doing yourself a disservice

if you spend more time upset at having feelings

than just letting yourself feel them.

Week of 2/21 in Scorpio: 

Large and everpresent are these feelings.

They lead down a path where there is nothing but 

another path.

[cold melting into legibility]

[a patch of ground revealed]

[cries “Oh,”] 

Say with me – 

Being myself helps end the cycles of suppression.

[a fantasy landscape, stairs leading to an infinite beginning]

What I am is nameless, but it is

good.

Answers, sorted:

I LOVE THE DARK

NO LIGHT NO PROBLEM

Notes:

“STOP”: A sign in the back of the kitchen in what was Panera but is now a COVID-19 testing 

site.

“run” – Instagram post by @cuboid.savior, originally posted February 20, 2021.

“other people’s mistakes” / “say with me” / “nameless” – Instagram posts by @gendersauce, 

originally posted February 22, 20, and 24, 2021, respectively.

The Virgo, the Leo, the Gemini – Highlights from separate conversations with three friends who 

match their astrological signs every so often.

The Scorpio – me, quoting the cooking show Chopped. 

“Millennials to Snake People” Google Chrome Extension.

“doing yourself a disservice…” – A conversation about feelings with someone whose 

astrological sign was less important to the topic at hand.

“Week of…” – weekly horoscope from @poetastrologers on Twitter, originally posted February 

21, 2021.

“Oh,” – A patch of sidewalk in front of the Miller Creative Quad covered in ice.

“I love the dark” – Tweet by @dasharez0ne, originally posted February 21, 2021.