A Piece of Good News by Katie Peterson

Author:Katie Peterson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

THE ECONOMY

I will take the story of his kindness and sequester it

from all the other stories of his character: his bluntness

of speech, the time he thought me selfish.

Or the Christmas I gave him music, and he gave me a stone.

Gorgeous strains of green in the granite, eye could search

for a pattern forever and never find it, but where would I put it?

So it is with friendship. He kept it in his house.

I was told, Do not store up what’s precious.

THE GOVERNMENT

Years later, the same argument

about what to eat and drink

for hours. Those in elected

positions whirl around those positions

like petals on a flower. At night,

the story of the accident gets told again, this time,

the greatest dramatic pause follows the rescuer

walking away. I say it has been years,

years, I say, to any flower that will

listen, to our excuses for lilies, a flower

I’ve never actually seen.

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