Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for November 28, 2017

I guess he never had a squirrel chew through his house wiring, nor a tree subvert his sewer line, nor a bird build a nest in his chimney…

As for the violets, I can only speak of their ideology sub rosa.

I have met idiots, who would do that. They have the illusion that, if they are suspicious of stuff like that, they can presume to be “smarter” than me.

Yes you can, by all that’s holy, and I will keep doing so until my keepers bow to me as supreme ruler of the universe!

That bit about the violets is true. Their ideology is rock solid and unchallengeable.

As I was feeling so distant and disconnected, I just let it go and accepted it as ordinary. I was hardly the arbiter of normal anyway, and it really didn’t affect me at all as an outside observer in this instance. It was just weird, and maybe I misheard it anyway, and that he was calling the students by names like “Pork-Rind”, “Sausage-Link”, “Loin-Chop” or “Ham-Dinger”.

If it’s legal.

Bunnies don’t want to get into your wallet.

We want access to your garden.

Violet perfume always challenges my ideologies.

Like Hal Borland cornered the market on “You can’t …”, viz.,

You can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd

You can’t take a shower in a parakeet cage

You can’t go swimmin’ in a baseball pool

You can’t change film with a kid on your back

You can’t drive around with a tiger in your car, &

You can’t go fishin’ in a watermelon patch

Did the bird eat the squirrel?

They ain’t sayin’ nothin’!

Silence = consent

Where did THIS come from?Violate me in the violet time in the vilest way that you know,Ruin me, ravage me, utterly savagely, on me no mercy bestow. Funny what pops into one’s head long after teenagerhood is lost and gone.

Maybe “you” can’t, but I can. No limits! Let the imagination soar!

I will not be constrained by artificial bonds invented by inferior mere humans, as it is not congruent with my reality. Your mileage may vary….

Trees, birds, and squirrels have one thing in common..