~ Good Bones ~

[Bill Wiltrack]

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Good Bones
BY MAGGIE SMITH





Life is short, though I keep this from my children.

Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children.

The world is at least fifty percent terrible,
and that’s a conservative estimate,
though I keep this from my children.

For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.

For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake.

Life is short and the world is at least half terrible,
and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children.

I am trying to sell them the world.

Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole,
chirps on about good bones:

This place could be beautiful, right?

You could make this place beautiful.







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[FlashDangerpants]

With your recent dribble of sombre, gloomier than usual drivel, are you trying to subtly announce your impending death?

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Odd that a lot of modern poetry is really just prose that has been broken up and presented to look like poetry.

[thedoc]

It sounds like Bill's outlook on life has gotten better.

[Philosophy Explorer]

I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.

PhilX

[vegetariantaxidermy]

I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.

PhilX

I wouldn't say it's pessimistic, and why are yanks so offended by melancholia? Fake 'up-ness' is far more annoying.

[thedoc]

I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.

PhilX

The ignore function works. Or failing that, If you don't like the program, quit bitching and change the channel.

[Philosophy Explorer]

I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.

PhilX

I wouldn't say it's pessimistic, and why are yanks so offended by melancholia? Fake 'up-ness' is far more annoying.

I see you don't understand "Yanks" (spelled with a capital Y) and it is still pessimistic.

PhilX

[vegetariantaxidermy]

I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.

PhilX

You are right. You don't speak English.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.

PhilX

I wouldn't say it's pessimistic, and why are yanks so offended by melancholia? Fake 'up-ness' is far more annoying.

I see you don't understand "Yanks" (spelled with a capital Y) and it is still pessimistic.

PhilX

You mean there is some deep meaning to all those fake smiles and phony 'joie de vivre'??

[Philosophy Explorer]

I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.

PhilX

You are right. You don't speak English.

Wrong. I don't normally speak that creepy language, British.

PhilX

[vegetariantaxidermy]

I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.

PhilX

You are right. You don't speak English.

Wrong. I don't normally speak that creepy language, British.

PhilX

It's called English.

[Philosophy Explorer]

You are right. You don't speak English.

Wrong. I don't normally speak that creepy language, British.

PhilX

It's called English.

I speak good American English.

PhilX

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Wrong. I don't normally speak that creepy language, British.

PhilX

It's called English.

I speak good American English.

PhilX

Even if there were such a thing, you still don't.

[Philosophy Explorer]

It's called English.

I speak good American English.

PhilX

Even if there were such a thing, you still don't.

PhilX