Horoscopes

I never have believed there is any truth in horoscopes.

There are too many people to be divided into too few groups

For there to be any significance.

But I read them anyway, two each day.

Seconds after I've read them, I don't recall what they said.

I never read my husband's, though I know he's a Leo;

I seldom read my childrens's, each a different sign:

Taurus, Libra, Aquarius. And even more rarely,

Do I scan the horoscopes of my grandchildren.

But she, in the spirit of her life, for a time,

Thought they held some truth, and believed a little,

Or pretended to, which amounts to the same thing,

So I keep reading them, as hope-less as ever.