<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Good Bones</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Life is short, though I keep this from my children. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">estimate, though I keep this from my children. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">is at least half terrible, and for every kind</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">stranger, there is one who would break you, </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">though I keep this from my children. I am trying</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">walking you through a real shithole, chirps on</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">about good bones: This place could be beautiful, </span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">right? You could make this place beautiful.</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Maggie Smith</span></div></div></body></html>