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Post by Merge on Jan 20, 2025 15:51:36 GMT
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bonesOne of my favorites. Feels appropriate today. 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. ETA: How typical that someone felt the need to mark this Politics. Where is the political speech here, please?
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Post by mom2jnk on Jan 20, 2025 16:15:40 GMT
Yes, so much yes. As an educator, I constantly feel "I am trying to sell them the world." It could be beautiful. I'm holding on to that today. Thank you, Merge. |
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Post by peabay on Jan 20, 2025 16:20:41 GMT
Beautiful! I will be sharing that.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2025 16:35:40 GMT
In a similar vein, I was reading Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes last night.
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Post by peabay on Jan 20, 2025 17:40:46 GMT
HOW IS THIS POLITICAL?
the person who labeled it? You're an asshole.
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Post by littlemama on Jan 20, 2025 17:54:29 GMT
HOW IS THIS POLITICAL? the person who labeled it? You're an asshole. All I can figure is that it is because it related to the arts and the other side wants to do away with all of that? |
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Post by Merge on Jan 20, 2025 18:35:03 GMT
HOW IS THIS POLITICAL? the person who labeled it? You're an asshole. All I can figure is that it is because it related to the arts and the other side wants to do away with all of that? Yeah, the arts and humanities have a strong liberal bias, I guess.  |
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Post by bc2ca on Jan 20, 2025 18:40:55 GMT
Thanks for sharing.  I hope I'm not the only one who saw the author is Maggie Smith and thought there was a side to the late actor I didn't know about.  |
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Post by Zee on Jan 20, 2025 19:18:27 GMT
Marked political for two reasons, I'd guess, the first being that the person who did it wants to get a rise out of merge bc they know it will; and because it was posted with "feels appropriate on this day", which we of course know what that refers to.
So, whatever.
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Post by peabay on Jan 20, 2025 19:28:46 GMT
Marked political for two reasons, I'd guess, the first being that the person who did it wants to get a rise out of merge bc they know it will; and because it was posted with "feels appropriate on this day", which we of course know what that refers to. So, whatever. It's also Martin Luther King Jr. Day so maybe it has more to do with that? Is that political? |
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Post by Zee on Jan 20, 2025 19:34:51 GMT
Marked political for two reasons, I'd guess, the first being that the person who did it wants to get a rise out of merge bc they know it will; and because it was posted with "feels appropriate on this day", which we of course know what that refers to. So, whatever. It's also Martin Luther King Jr. Day so maybe it has more to do with that? Is that political? Do you think that's what the reference was, in all honesty? I don't care, I don't even see tags. Just saying let's own it when we do it. And, never let 'em see you sweat...the Great Anonymous Political Tagger just does it because it obviously upsets some people. |
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Post by peabay on Jan 20, 2025 19:40:36 GMT
It's also Martin Luther King Jr. Day so maybe it has more to do with that? Is that political? Do you think that's what the reference was, in all honesty? I don't care, I don't even see tags. Just saying let's own it when we do it. And, never let 'em see you sweat...the Great Anonymous Political Tagger just does it because it obviously upsets some people. I guess. It's a weird little fixation. |
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Post by Zee on Jan 20, 2025 19:46:16 GMT
Do you think that's what the reference was, in all honesty? I don't care, I don't even see tags. Just saying let's own it when we do it. And, never let 'em see you sweat...the Great Anonymous Political Tagger just does it because it obviously upsets some people. I guess. It's a weird little fixation. It definitely is that! Anything at all can turn political here in an instant. I'm pretty sure we don't really need tags at all to be honest. |
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Post by Merge on Jan 20, 2025 21:24:47 GMT
It's also Martin Luther King Jr. Day so maybe it has more to do with that? Is that political? Do you think that's what the reference was, in all honesty? I don't care, I don't even see tags. Just saying let's own it when we do it. And, never let 'em see you sweat...the Great Anonymous Political Tagger just does it because it obviously upsets some people. I mean … I don’t care? If a brief comment is supposedly “getting a rise” out of me, I’d suggest whoever it is hasn’t seen some of my posts where I was actually pissed off. And if we’re tagging posts now based on what someone thinks the poster might have meant, that’s just silly. |
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Post by Zee on Jan 20, 2025 21:41:01 GMT
Do you think that's what the reference was, in all honesty? I don't care, I don't even see tags. Just saying let's own it when we do it. And, never let 'em see you sweat...the Great Anonymous Political Tagger just does it because it obviously upsets some people. I mean … I don’t care? If a brief comment is supposedly “getting a rise” out of me, I’d suggest whoever it is hasn’t seen some of my posts where I was actually pissed off. And if we’re tagging posts now based on what someone thinks the poster might have meant, that’s just silly. I don't disagree, but you did make a whole thread about it once, and people that play these games don't forget. And you mentioned it again in the OP. So, obviously, it does get a rise out of you. I'm just saying don't let them know it so easily. People get all bent about it all the time. |
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Post by Merge on Jan 20, 2025 21:43:19 GMT
I mean … I don’t care? If a brief comment is supposedly “getting a rise” out of me, I’d suggest whoever it is hasn’t seen some of my posts where I was actually pissed off. And if we’re tagging posts now based on what someone thinks the poster might have meant, that’s just silly. I don't disagree, but you did make a whole thread about it once, and people that play these games don't forget. And you mentioned it again in the OP. So, obviously, it does get a rise out of you. I'm just saying don't let them know it so easily. People get all bent about it all the time. Whatever. |
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Post by mikklynn on Jan 22, 2025 14:06:17 GMT
In a similar vein, I was reading Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes last night. I love Langston Hughes. My favorite is A Dream Deferred. |
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