What+Bugs+Me

by Kara Williams

I cringe. It is like a trigger being pulled in my head as if someone had run their nails across a chalkboard

or

scraped a fork across fine china. That's how the words feel to my ears.

"Cool Beans" "Awesome Opossum" And even, no, really: "Okeydokey Artichokey"

I cringe, and immediately begin to question the intelligence of the speaker of those awful words used together.