Just A Tangerine

introduction

Tangents.

Tangents sounds a lot like tangerines. I like tangerines. Tangerines taste good. They're my favorite kind of citrus. You'd think a sour lemon would be, since I have the characteristics of a well-functioning sociopathic sadist, but it isn't. They're tangerines. They're better than Mandarin oranges. Tangerines and Mandarin sorta look like they rhyme, but they don't. Nothing ever rhymes when you expect it to, do they? Unless you're Shakespeare. Shakespeare was a weirdo. He practically broke so many English rules, and he's still a praised playwright to this day. Maybe it's just playwriting. I want to write a play. I have an idea ... maybe I'll write it later. But for now, I need to get back on the topic of

Tangents.

My English teacher used that word at the beginning of the year. She said she got on a lot of tangents, especially when she was with our talkative, easily distracted class. According to Dictionary.com, the definition of tangents my teacher was referencing was most likely the definition in the "idiom" section. "digressing suddenly from one course of action or thought and turning to another". Did you know tangents are also a mathematical (mostly geometrical) term? I wonder why they're both called the same thing. Is it homonyms that were like that? Or homologous pairs? Homosexual? No homo. That's what a bunch of teenage guys say when they show affection towards each other. Why they feel the need to try to assert fragile stereotypical masculinity when they are nice to each other, I'll never know.

Tangents.

Tangerines. Every single time I think of the word tangent, I always think of tangerines. Of course I could get on a whole lot of different tangents about stuff that the word tangent reminds me of. But I always come back to tangerines. Is it because I'm a tangerine? No. I'm not a fruit. Because of the tang- sound? Most likely. But maybe figuratively, I relate to tangerines on a deep personal level. Who wouldn't? Someone who has enough social skills, intelligence, and talent, to not be needing to be on this stupid website at 3 am in the morning. But I'm not that kind of person.

I'm probably just a tangerine.