A

a is also for agatha, apple, alice, apache, again, augment, antelope, awesome, australia, antarctica, astronomy, alligator, association, antipathy, anger, addled, aggregation, assonance, alimentary, antiquated, annoyed, allaphone, aphrodisiac, alumni, almighty, afraid, afford, afro, animosity, allegiance, android, androgeny, arithmetic, amorous, adored, aproached, allibrandi, ameoba, accustom, antedote, anticipate, appear, aubergine, accidental, affluent, agog, adhere, accordian, ad infinitum

a is also for agatha, apple, alice, apache, again, augment, antelope, awesome, australia, antarctica, astronomy, alligator, association, antipathy, anger, addled, aggregation, assonance, alimentary, antiquated, annoyed, allaphone, aphrodisiac, alumni, almighty, afraid, afford, afro, animosity, allegiance, android, androgeny, arithmetic, amorous, adored, aproached, allibrandi, ameoba, accustom, antedote, anticipate, appear, aubergine, accidental, affluent, agog, adhere, accordian, ad infinitum

i find a very useful when referring to the nonspecific, but when you have a particular to mention, there's nothing like the.

A ship captain is a good man to marry if it is a marriage of love, for absences are a good influence in love, and keep it bright and delicate; but he is just the worst man if the feeling is more pedestrian, as habit is too frequently torn open and the solder has never time to set.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things, even as they are little things, not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest pleasures.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Roads

a car crash

whizzing,
whizzing,
whizzing down the hill
i flew up
my stomach flew up
i flew down
my stomach flew down
we went down
tickle,
tickle,
tickle belly hill.

whoosh,
whooosh,
whoooosh,
out the corner of my eye,
i saw the car,
whoosh,
whooosh,
whoooosh,
right on through

the stop sign
they didn't see the stop sign
they didn't read the stop sign

smash,
oh, smash,
right on crash,
yeah, right on crash,
through the car,
through the car,
into my mother,
my mother,
my mother,
my brother and i.

you didn't stop,
you didn't stop,
you didn't stop,
she screamed.

i looked about,
said,
are you alright
my little brother
looked at me,
but did not reply.
are you alright,
are you alright,
i shook him,
made him speak.

get your hands off me, you freak,
i might have whiplash,
go to hell,
fuck off.

Thank god, he was alright.

my little brother was alright.

we were all alright.

the car crash went alright.

the car crash went alright.

A is for Kid A by Radioheads
Kid A is also what my true love calls me.
Hey Kid A
He also calls me A for Angel.
Hey A Kid A.