May 27, 2025

Good Bones by Maggie Smith.

I love this poem, even though it is kinda dark, albeit with a hopeful ending. Excerpt, click above to read it all.

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.

-via Kottke.