Good Bones

Good Bones

oil on cradled wood panel

18 x 24 x 1.5 inches

This item is unframed but ready to hang.

​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

This piece is unframed. It will be carefully packaged in mostly repurposed shipping materials. 

​This item is an original work of art. Copyright owned by Lola Jovan