Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Blurt

There’s much to be said of the kind of sarcasm that accompanies a dark mood. It’s vile. It’s incisive. And always, always effective.

I’ve been on a roll this morning, dashing off vile, incisive responses on email, which are no doubt going to effectively bankrupt the meagre social-stroke-professional [how sensual and useful, she thought] goodwill I’ve had the mildly-good fortune to earn.

To my punctuation-challenged music director*, who’s been indefinitely stalling work and dodging my calls, but who finally had the decency to respond saying “have already started working will send you something by thursday now cos we got packed with sudden jobs in the middle but i have already started your thing...so ill send it to you when i feel confident about it...”; to him I said, with an involuntary spill of verbiage that skittered off my fingers in a thoughtless little scurry across the keyboard “Shall be praying for your confidence.”

O woe.

And then another*, to whom, with much fondness I sent a list of flattering alliterations, who had the indecent gall to suggest, with unabashed unlettered smugness “i couldn’t find even one allit there u know, all different letters of the alphabets!!!”; to this jewel my fingers involuntarily expectorated “You'd better start paying me for grammar lessons”.

I will not be surprised if I do not receive:
1.) The melody I’ve been awaiting endlessly.
2.) A flattering paean to my literary effort.

Now tell me, how many marks do I get for effectiveness? And [dis]engagement?

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*Believe me when I say this... I am rather fond of both.

7 comments:

NanNan said...

Always A+++ for your sarcastical sardonic sagacity!! (written with trepidation---fear of incision-- should there be al on sarcastic? Punction okay--yikes,, not a complete sentence,,be gentle :) )

H said...

Awww. Nan. you always indulge me so! Hug.

Ben Ditty said...

well marks are a rather old form of german currency so I'll give you 200 euros :)

H said...

Awww. That was rich of you, dahlink.

Anonymous said...

Jeez woman, you get flattering paeans to your literary scatological efforts here all the time! And a lot of luvin' to boot.

Hope you do get your melody soon, though.

H said...

Ha. I could've been Sartre's muse for his undiscovered piece - The Cynic.

H said...

Sorry. duh. that was Camus. So much for my literary pretensions.