Free Verse · Pet Loss
Wherever the Good Ones Go
I don't know much about forever,
but I know this:
somewhere, whatever's kind in the universe
owed you one —
a field, a windowsill, a hand
that never stops mid-scratch.
You spent your whole short life
making one house gentler.
Wherever the good ones go,
they were lucky to get you.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- Wherever the Good Ones Go
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 10 lines
- Form
- Free Verse, Elegy
- Themes
- Pet Loss, Grief
Text, source & rights
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Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalWherever the Good Ones Go, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 d518cc35325ae706…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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