“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.”
– Maggie Smith, Good Bones | 7/31
HALIDOM
[noun]
1. anything considered holy; a holy place or thing; a sacred or consecrated thing.
2. a sanctuary.
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hāligdōm, from hālig (holy) + –dōm (suffix denoting state, condition, power, dominion, authority, property, right, office or quality).
one of those fruit arrangements but it’s just raw meat instead of fruit
of words and mythos: Pandora Absolved by M.C.
They gave you life
but no purpose and so came
a maddening itch.
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