"I killed another houseplant bc of executive dysfunction"
Mundane
Evokes helplessness
Kind of a bummer
"Plagued by demons as I am, my crops have withered yet again"
Powerful imagery
Frames you as a gothic protagonist
Emphasizes that you are hounded by demons
How fucking cool are demons???
This reminds me of something I heard a bloke say at a local pub. He was talking about which of his vegetables survived a recent frost, and I only remember one thing he said,
"I think the lettuce has succumbed"
(Imagine that said in a very thick Welsh accents and a very solemn look on his face)
the lettuce has succumbed
I love the downright Shakespearean meter here:
"Plagued by demons as I am,
my crops have withered yet again,"
It pleases me that "I think the lettuce has succumbed" fits the meter, but it needs a preceeding line.
I like the idea of making the original meter octosyllabic,
Plague-ed by demons as I am,
My crops have withered yet again.
So then, I think something to do with the frost would work well as a preceding line for my Farmer's Lament,
The frost came bitterly last night,
I think the lettuce has succumbed.
