Contrary

My name should be Mary as I am quite contrary this morning.

 

Today, I don’t like the color of my hair, my living room or my car.  I do not like that my hammock chair gets wet in the rain and my husband’s does not.  I do not like any of my clothes.  I do not like my unaffectionate cats, which prior to today I considered an admirable trait.  I do not like green eggs and ham, whatever the hell that means, Dr. Seuss, if that’s really your name…

 

I am in a mood for a rip-roaring, get down, lay it down fight and no one will oblige me!  I don’t like that.

 

I want to be mad at someone who has wronged me, but no one will accommodate me and I don’t like that, either.

 

I want to be huffy, puffy, and blow someone, anyone outta the water!

 

Unfortunately, today is peaceful though rainy, and just generally pleasant.  AAAAARRGGHH!!

 

How’s a girl (and I use that term loosely!) supposed to be a raving maniac when nothing will go wrong?!

 

Mary, Mary, quite contrary " how did you get that garden to grow?

 

 

Reviews

[rylesconroy]

This poem shows a lot of bottled up anger. It really shows how your feeling. Great Job!

[workscot]

Contrary Mary,give up gardening,it doen't seem to agree with you.Have you considered ultimate fighting as a hobbie? Both odd and interesting to be smack dab in the middle of someone elses tantrum.Seriously though,I LMAO through the whole piece inspite of it reminding of one of my ex-wifes good days.Exceedingly cool,carry on trashing the joint.

[Kaliope]

Haha, just had such a morning today ;-)
Great piece, love the humor and the honesty.

[Chris]

FINALLY!! "Writer's Rage!" I knew I would see it again... chuckling here. We do live with it - sigh... and oft survive it.

[Carol Cashes]

Writer's Rage? Yeah...that was a big part of my eehh! My mother would say "You're so mean, you gotta peench yourself!" I did...it pissed me off!

[Chris]

Have you a specific "piece" that needs being read or "heard"? I've time at the moment.

[Carol Cashes]

My favorite piece, the one I read to myself to calm my racing brain is Rites of Passage. The Last Winter is another that soothes me - I like to daydream that I, too, could have the same Last Winter.

[Chris]

Fair enough...

[The Ink Chapters]

very cute story, I can relate to when everything else seems to be going well but you want something to match your crummy mood. A little random; the husband not getting wet but the hammock chair does (I don't understand the comparison), funny however.

[Carol Cashes]

The hammock chairs are on the small patio entry to my front door. The wind is always blowing the wind from the west where my chair is and it gets wet when it rains and my husband's hammock does not. *laughing* I suspect he knew this when he installed them...

[Carol Cashes]

I meant blowing the RAIN from the west...

[The Ink Chapters]

oh I see now :)
thanks for clearing that up, nice read :)

[Richard🖌]

Ha-hahhh!
I'd laugh my a*s off at you, not because I wanted to, but because I can see the humor in you stomping around in a hissy tirade, ripping, tearing, and snorting steam at whatever in general that put that burr under your saddle … then, you could take it out on me, because I can take it, and we'd end-up giggling, downing stiff shots of whatever, or nothing at all, and making-love (if I was your hubby, of course … LOL!).

I love it, Mary … hehe! ⁓ Richard ; )

200/100

[Carol Cashes]

The best way to describe it is like a soldier during peacetime. I still have fight and fury in me, and there's no opponent...but that's always just a temporary ceasefire in my world and I dare not get complacent. Also, I married a smart man and he has learned the art of "redirection". *snicker* like I don't know what he's doing when he points at other potential targets...

[Richard🖌]

Crafty, that man o'yuren!

[An owl on the moon]

Sometimes, perhaps, it might be better to be fully alive in a wild state that is Contrariwise rather than being numb. Don't get me wrong, a state of blissful happiness is wonderful, but you might have to fight the whole world to get there some days. And please don't think we would wish this contrary world upon you, but it does seem to make you brilliantly creative. ;)

[Carol Cashes]

I've seen the dangers of complacency, from personal relationships to our dwindling rights...I'm good at fighting villains, City Hall, and for my life. Like I told Richard, I'm like a soldier in peacetime, hard to find where I fit and I chafe at not being "useful".

[An owl on the moon]

It's a good thing to understand yourself, to know what brings out the fierce strength in you, and focusing it on the task at hand. I salute you.

[barleygirl]

It pains me to say this, but I wonder if our friend Mr Chump feels this way when he goes on a twitter storm? I used to be spoiling for a fight in my younger days, but now I'm confrontation-avoidant. Still, your tongue-in-cheek ditty brought back memories of some of my more dramatic tizzies, the kind where you break stuff & rip up roses, etc. *wink! wink!* (((HUGS)))

[Carol Cashes]

I didn't really throw a lot of hissy fits when I was younger, or really even now. But as I stated in my tutorial Creative Cussin', yellin' out stupid stuff at stupid people is practically exercise for me, now, you know. Cardio Cussin'. "Tizzies"! With your full and complete authorization, I intend to incorporate that descriptive noun immediately into my rather extensive vocabulary. *ahem*.

[barleygirl]

*smile* (((HUGS)))

[Sapientiam]

I often go through odd phases of pessimism in which the future is bleak, I will just suffer in life, etc. Though, the mood you're describing is one unfamiliar to me. Yet, I could still connect in a way. Such a beautiful job you've done! I have respect for people who are honest with their emotions. :)

[Carol Cashes]

*snort* "Honest with their emotions..." You. Have. No. Idea.
Glad you could relate, even people that don't have a need to be angry to feel alive can potentially interpret this as "waitin' for the other shoe?"

[Sapientiam]

Well, it's true! I think... Is it not? This seems very honest, but I have a habit of interpreting things wrong. Of course, I feel like there is more depth to this "anger", something I can't seem to grasp, which is why I really love this work. It's complex. I mean, my default personality is "amiable", so I don't feel true anger unless it's towards myself and even then I would fail to recognize it. Kind of like if I was killed, I would forget to die XD. Your writing really made me think; it gave me a sense of who you are, which is always wonderful.

[Carol Cashes]

To Know Me, read Know Me. And then Creative Cussin'. You will then know me well enough to correctly interpret everything I say/write. I'm not only an open book, but shamelessly promote said book so that no one can say they had "no idea" I would react that way. You know, givin' folks a fightin' chance, in the spirit of fairness and...stuff

[Sapientiam]

Will keep in kind. ^ ^

[Sapientiam]

*in mind

Sorry about that!

[Carol Cashes]

"kind" works....

[Jacob Clifford]

I've been in similar moods before. I'm angry and want a reason to be (or at the very least an excuse to vent), but for once everything is going just fine. How frustrating!

[Carol Cashes]

Yes, it is. Positively makes my skin itch! Today made up for it in spades. And Kudos to you for not riding the "hormone" train. That ain't my problem.