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"There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood.”
-- Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
Very true! The feeling from when we have been wronged really drives us!
Posted by: London Accountants Worker | May 22, 2015 at 05:12 AM
The desire to be the injured party, what could be better? "Victim Studies" is coming to a university near you!
Posted by: Don Carpenter | May 23, 2015 at 11:11 PM