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~ Good Bones ~
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:17 pm
by 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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Re: ~ Good Bones ~
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:35 pm
by FlashDangerpants
With your recent dribble of sombre, gloomier than usual drivel, are you trying to subtly announce your impending death?
Re: ~ Good Bones ~
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:35 pm
by vegetariantaxidermy
Odd that a lot of modern poetry is really just prose that has been broken up and presented to look like poetry.
Re: ~ Good Bones ~
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:39 pm
by thedoc
It sounds like Bill's outlook on life has gotten better.
Re: ~ Good Bones ~
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:42 pm
by Philosophy Explorer
I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.
PhilX
Re: ~ Good Bones ~
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:52 pm
by vegetariantaxidermy
Philosophy Explorer wrote: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.
Re: ~ Good Bones ~
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:56 pm
by thedoc
Philosophy Explorer wrote: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.
Re: ~ Good Bones ~
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:57 pm
by Philosophy Explorer
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Philosophy Explorer wrote: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
Re: ~ Good Bones ~
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:57 pm
by vegetariantaxidermy
Philosophy Explorer wrote:I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.
PhilX
You are right. You don't speak English.
Re: ~ Good Bones ~
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:59 pm
by vegetariantaxidermy
Philosophy Explorer wrote:vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Philosophy Explorer wrote: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'??
Re: ~ Good Bones ~
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 9:02 pm
by Philosophy Explorer
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Philosophy Explorer wrote: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
Re: ~ Good Bones ~
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 9:03 pm
by vegetariantaxidermy
Philosophy Explorer wrote:vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Philosophy Explorer wrote: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.
Re: ~ Good Bones ~
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 9:09 pm
by Philosophy Explorer
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Philosophy Explorer wrote:vegetariantaxidermy wrote:
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
Re: ~ Good Bones ~
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 10:22 pm
by vegetariantaxidermy
Philosophy Explorer wrote:vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Philosophy Explorer wrote:
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.
Re: ~ Good Bones ~
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 10:31 pm
by Philosophy Explorer
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Philosophy Explorer wrote:vegetariantaxidermy wrote:
It's called English.
I speak good American English.
PhilX
Even if there were such a thing, you still don't.
PhilX