The following are entries to a contest by The Washington Post, in which respondents had to write a two-line romantic poem…except that the last line had to be as un-romantic as the first line was romantic.

1. My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife:
Marrying you screwed up my life.

2. I see your face when I am dreaming.
That’s why I always wake up screaming.

3. Kind, intelligent, loving and hot;
This describes everything you are not.

4. Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss,
But I only slept with you because I was pissed.

5. I thought that I could love no other–
that is, until I met your brother.

6. Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you ~
But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl’s empty and so is your head.

7. I want to feel your sweet embrace
But don’t take that paper bag off your face.

8. I love your smile, your face, and your eyes
Damn, I’m good at telling lies!

9. My love, you take my breath away.
What have you stepped in to smell this way?

10. My feelings for you no words can tell,
Except for maybe “Go to hell.”

11. What inspired this amorous rhyme?
Two parts vodka, one part lime.

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• you eat the M&Ms in color order.
• you fold your dirty clothes before putting them in the hamper.
• From Miranda:
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  • you have all your canned goods organized by type, flavor, and use.
  • and they’re all facing the front.
  • all you books, CDs, and movies have to be alphabetical order.
• you require no less than 200 threads per inch on your sheets. (Peggy)
• …and they are tucked so tightly that you really could bounce a quarter on them.
• you alphabetize your spices. ( Bert )
• you actually bother trying to convince someone that the 3rd millenium hasn’t begun yet (or that it *has* begun).
• you organize your closet by color, season, and fabric. ( Jennifer )
• you flame every person who sent you email because the emails weren’t spelled correctly or gramatically correct.
• you remove the tires to wash inside the wheel-wells of your vehicle. (Pat)
• you collect the little postcards in magazine issues…
• …for recycling.
• every e-mail reply that you send has been through a grammar checker…
• …and you correct the original message.
• you’re on a “calorie-counting” diet and you count the calories in the hot sauce on your “Big Beef Burrito Supreme”
• you fold up take-out food wrappers and neatly place them in a package before throwing it in the trash.

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