How dare she be anything he was annoyed with her for not being?

“The tulips along the border are redder than ever, opening, no longer wine cups …”

“Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.”

“As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is strikin…”

“I wait, washed, brushed, fed, like a prize pig. Sometime in the eighties they i…”