Rough around the Edges

Did I mention I liked Tom Waits? Rough around the edges could describe his voice...the sweetness is inside.It's just the opposite of Monty Python's crunchy frog candy in which a thin layer of chocolate covers a presumably gelid amphibian.

And the opposite of the Ancient Mariner is...my neighbor Carlos, who stopped in the street to ask me why he couldn't understand everything, all at once, so he could do the right thing to make the world better. Did I mention I liked my neighborhood?