~ Good Bones ~
- Bill Wiltrack
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~ Good Bones ~
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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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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.
.
- FlashDangerpants
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Re: ~ Good Bones ~
With your recent dribble of sombre, gloomier than usual drivel, are you trying to subtly announce your impending death?
- vegetariantaxidermy
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Re: ~ Good Bones ~
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 ~
It sounds like Bill's outlook on life has gotten better.
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Re: ~ Good Bones ~
I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.
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Re: ~ Good Bones ~
I wouldn't say it's pessimistic, and why are yanks so offended by melancholia? Fake 'up-ness' is far more annoying.Philosophy Explorer wrote:I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.
PhilX
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The ignore function works. Or failing that, If you don't like the program, quit bitching and change the channel.Philosophy Explorer wrote:I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.
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I see you don't understand "Yanks" (spelled with a capital Y) and it is still pessimistic.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:I wouldn't say it's pessimistic, and why are yanks so offended by melancholia? Fake 'up-ness' is far more annoying.Philosophy Explorer wrote:I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.
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- vegetariantaxidermy
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Re: ~ Good Bones ~
You are right. You don't speak English.Philosophy Explorer wrote:I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.
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- vegetariantaxidermy
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Re: ~ Good Bones ~
You mean there is some deep meaning to all those fake smiles and phony 'joie de vivre'??Philosophy Explorer wrote:I see you don't understand "Yanks" (spelled with a capital Y) and it is still pessimistic.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:I wouldn't say it's pessimistic, and why are yanks so offended by melancholia? Fake 'up-ness' is far more annoying.Philosophy Explorer wrote:I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.
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Wrong. I don't normally speak that creepy language, British.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:You are right. You don't speak English.Philosophy Explorer wrote:I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.
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- vegetariantaxidermy
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It's called English.Philosophy Explorer wrote:Wrong. I don't normally speak that creepy language, British.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:You are right. You don't speak English.Philosophy Explorer wrote:I wish somebody would keep this pessimistic thread away from me off of this website.
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I speak good American English.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:It's called English.Philosophy Explorer wrote:Wrong. I don't normally speak that creepy language, British.vegetariantaxidermy wrote: You are right. You don't speak English.
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Re: ~ Good Bones ~
Even if there were such a thing, you still don't.Philosophy Explorer wrote:I speak good American English.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:It's called English.Philosophy Explorer wrote:
Wrong. I don't normally speak that creepy language, British.
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vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Even if there were such a thing, you still don't.Philosophy Explorer wrote:I speak good American English.vegetariantaxidermy wrote: It's called English.
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