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TOP TEN TUESDAY – AUGUST 13TH
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl, every week features a different book related theme to take part in.. and this week’s is..
10 Books Featuring Travel
The main theme for this week was actually planes, trains and automobiles.. but I’m a fantasy reader. So the main modes of transport in the books I read are magical creatures of some kind. So they’ll be a bit…
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Thank you to Kiel’s story for this gem
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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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