Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for February 16, 2019

Because the Nutcracker stank like a putrid monkey ….

♫How bizarre, how bizarre♫

Two wooden nickels earned, buys you a beer and includes the bartender’s tip.

It’s hard to predict Rotifer’s favorite part, but mine is the cream-colored period after —ZARRE

Is her digestive tract on fire?

Gawd. I hate it when a monkey on a trapeze swings above my head using only one hand and a tail.

It began as an ordinary ride on the subway.

Funny, she doesn’t seem to be wearing a bizarre, but I believe she just had a bright idea.

Ah sweet tokenism. Gives us all a blushed sense of coolness.

Whatever game they’re going to play with that big candle, it looks like they’re choosing up sides.

… I’ve always been pro-prosaic…

… and my prose proves it…

… of course what would I know about pros?!?…

… I root for Cleveland…

…surprise, surprise, surprise, that’s not my candle, either…

…Space Captain Cody {G stood outside of the Open Pantry convenience store…

… with a cigar in hand, he asked Billy Batson if he he (meaning Billy) had a match…

… “Shazam,” said Billy, "Not since Superman died…

… musical interlude: Momma Mia let me go…

… the monkey on the flying trapeze dropped Burt Lancaster…

… “What?” the monkey asked, " I’m more Davey Jones than Tony Curtis…

… final…

… I have a solution/ compromise to Mr. Trump’s wall problem…

… build a Walmart instead…

… just as much wall…

… and more Mart…

Almost looks like she has a crankshaft.

Monkey Jack was lame, not nimble

Monkey Jack was vapid, not quick

Burnt his ass on the candlestick

Jill was nothing, if not chagrined

This love had fallen flat, a discarded bath mat

She wanted something like the Owl & Pussycat

Time to kick to the curb this beaver-rat asshat

From the sublime to the ridiculous?

Not Applicable, as I do not leave Visitors’ Tokens, ever, prosaic or bizarre. Anyway, in my parlance, a monkey on a trapeze is not considered prosaic, nor is a clockwork ballerina necessarily bizarre: it might just be of Abney Park, http://tinyurl.com/y3srpcjf