The film "American Beauty" showed us the secret majesty of a plastic bag whipping about in the wind. Here are other seemingly mundane, everyday objects whose hidden beauties can fill us with joy.
A pencil lying on the ground
A broken beer bottle on a lawn
A pile of dirty metal that is or has been on fire
Part of a dead cat
Some wet, steaming garbage
A ham sandwich that has been smeared against the side of a building
A concrete wall featuring racist graffiti
A pornographic magazine that is nailed to a rotting piece of plywood
Bullets
Discarded teeth that you know are riddled with herpes
The head of an old doll that once belonged to a boy who wasn't embarrassed about playing with dolls; the head has mustard all over it and there are tiny razor blades in the mustard