Mastodon needs Maggie Smith's #poem, "Good Bones".
So, here it is.

https://waxwingmag.org/items/Issue9/28_Smith-Good-Bones.php

Good Bones | 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, / I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least / fifty percent terrible (…) ❡

@djwfyi oh that's very good. Thanks for sharing it!