I am running in mud. So thick and deep that it wears me down. It's relentless pull grabs hold with a force of gravity I have never experienced, but yet, I fight. Muscles aching. They say that Mercury is in retrograde. I don't know what that means but I repeat it. Mercury's in retrograde. People agree. Fuck Mercury. Fuck retrograde. I can only wait it out. Like a bad storm. Stay inside and wait it out. But life goes on in the mud.