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.