The Good News

July 19, 2012Paul Hostovsky

The good news is
you’re wrong.
About everything.
The bad news is
not what you thought.
The good news is
not what you thought.
That’s the good news.
And it’s greater
than you know.
And it’s greater
than you can imagine—
you can’t imagine
being wrong about
everything. That’s why
the good news is
so unimaginable.
For starters, you’re wrong
about who you are—
about what you are,
and where you are,
and what you are doing,
and what you think is being
done to you. I don’t
know about you but
for some of us
that’s very good news.
I’m not what I thought.
You’re not what I thought.
You’re not what you thought
either. And neither is
your mother. You needn’t
figure it out. You needn’t
bother. You need do nothing
but plead ignorance
at every turn,
and keep returning,
keep opening
to the great
good news.

Tagged as: good news, paul hostovsky, poem

  • Kathleen Quiring

    I’m neither a poet nor a reader of poetry, so I don’t feel I have the vocabulary to talk about how much I loved this. Wonderful, Paul.

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    I wasn’t looking for this when I found it, and when I did I felt as though I had been found, It was what I needed at the moment I needed it.

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    Obliged.

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