Good Bones

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– GOOD BONES –
AN EXPOSITION


     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.

     ━━━ Good Bones / Maggie Smith

          ━━━ Good Bones / Maggie Smith

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     AS FAR AS LOVE SHACKS GO, Rick Flemming's is pretty nice

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AS FAR AS LOVE SHACKS GO, Rick Flemming's is pretty nice. The thought makes Lola's nose wrinkle in distaste. A whole-body shudder of disgust runs rampant through her. Her mother gets out of the beat-up pickup, slams the door—accidentally? Lola isn't one to guess—and stomps toward the front door, house key clutched in hand like a weapon.

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