Good
1. I make pudding at night in my kitchen.
2. you make me want to write about god.
3. we are not friends.
1. the pudding tastes like a wooden spoon and my house is empty.
2. you make me want to tell you that you make me want to write about god.
3. we are not friends.
1. at the end of the day sometimes I have nothing to do.
2. you make me want to write about death. which is certainly not god.
3. if we were friends, we would have walked a little more slowly. you probably would have felt
something pull lightly when we walked away from each other, like two magnets coming apart.
1. I like to stay awake.
2. the nighttime is probably god.
3. we are not friends. but if we were, we probably would have noticed the nighttime. we probably
would have wanted to walk a little longer. and the word love would have hung between us in the
air like magnetism. you make me want to love everything, and you make me hate myself, and you
make me wish you knew me. you make me want to label a piece of paper “good” and make a list.
nighttime is good. warmth is good. pudding is good. friendship is good. joy is good. I like to walk
at night. you remind me that I’m lonely. and that my house is empty.
1. I make god at home in my kitchen.
2. this loneliness is so big it’s probably god.
3. you make me want to hate everything. and then break things. If we were friends I could save
you. and then I could pick up all the pieces of all the things I’ve broken and I could fix them.
and I could make a mosaic of all the broken things and call them beautiful. and I could call you
beautiful.
1. we aren’t friends. if we were I would tell you that I’m afraid of dying and I would ask you to
fix the broken pieces. I would tell you that I like to judge things, label them in neat piles of good
or bad. or maybe I could let go of bad as long as I were allowed to keep good. I would tell you
that god is anything living which is why it can’t be death and I would tell you that I’m afraid of
the places where god cannot follow. I’d tell you I could save you. fix the things I’ve broken. I’d
tell you I haven’t broken very many things but I wish I had so I could start fixing them so I could
have something to fix. I would tell you that I am good. that I like eating pudding off the wooden
spoon. that I’m afraid and fear is probably god. and that love is good.
1. love is good.
2. I would tell you that I am good.
3. we probably would have felt something pull lightly when we walked away from each other,
like two magnets coming apart
1. friendship is good. friendship is easy and beautiful.
2. this loneliness is so strong it’s probably god.
3. we are not friends.
- Adrienne Rosenberg
