"The love which me so cruelly tormentethSo pleasing is in my extremest pain:
That all the more my sorrow it augmenteth,
The more I love and do embrace my bane.
Ne do I wish (for wishing were but vain)
To be acquit from my continual smart..."
Edmund Spenser, Sonnett XLII
Amazing Grace on bagpipes
Bra straps showing beneath sleeveless shirts
Crack whores unwilling to admit they need help
Dreadful sorry, Clementine
Ear hair
Financial statements from my investment company
German cooking equating mush with meat
Heartless bastards
Insolent cashiers
Jury duty with my so-called peers
Kindness of strangers in lieu of compassion from loved-ones
Laugher, when I don’t get the joke
Milk that’s almost, but not quite, sour
Nothing so much as having my vegetables harvested by vermin
Outrageous fortune, the slings and arrows of
Questionable taste in music, played too loud in the adjacent car at a long red light
Regrets keeping me awake in the dark hours of the night Sticky silverware in restaurants
Tater Tots: an abomination of potato injustice
Unimaginative paint colors like Navaho White, never imagined by actual Navahos
Voters who think their civic duty does not require them to pay attention BEFORE voting
Women in the line at the coffee shop who overuse quoty hands gestures while waiting
Xtreme sports: spell it right, idiots
Yellow Jello, don’t ask
Zero tolerance from bigoted homophobes, especially those who are closet queers
What is the source of your continual smart?
2 comments:
Why no "P" on your list? How about pedophiles, pissants, party poopers, portulacas (the flowers are gorgeous but the foliage and general structure so disappointing)?
All of the above except amazing grace, though bagpipes might just qualify. Can I substitute another A? Anomalies (e.g. climate change) characterized as catastrophes by certain individuals seeking fame and fortune by building a bandwagon. Or, perhaps alliterative examples suggested by a blooming idiot who despises bandwagons but blogs anyway.
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