Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 02, 2021

The better beetle,

The beetle better.

The better beetle, beetle better,

Better bèetle, play

Give me a moment

Got to get into this pond and get wet

Don’t feed me sorrow

Pain is a poison I digest

-Collective Frog; Where the Tadpole Grows

I’m not liking these itchy clothes, will somebody please tell me why I’m so itchy? I miss being a potato beetle ….roaming the potato patches in Idaho were the best days of my former life ….I guess I’ll have to just get a thicker skin to survive, after all, I’m a budding executive, and have my eyes on everything important in this new life. So I guess I’ll have to sprout my potentials and learn to bake, fry, sauté, and simmer! I don’t know why I’m craving sour cream but it seems to satisfy my taste buds!

I’m looking for that jar containing Miss Ethyl Acetate. After I met her I remember nothing.

My heart. my heart. now I fart potato beetles. Fill er up ethylene.

Franz Kafka, on one fateful morning.

…the potatoe beetle was the Best…

…but the walrus was Paul…

…in my past life I was a fictional character called Sopt…

…I also was a tree trimmer and a food distribution warehouse man…

…is the past really the past?..

…for it is claimed that there is no past and there is no future..

…just now…

…you can more comments like this on the new Frog Applause Plus…

…coming soon in your next life…

I always liked the past life where I was a bowl weevil.

Apeeling Karma today … and Yesterday … when all my troubles seemed so … uh … something, something, something …!

Says the man who has just stepped on a potato beetle, sending another soul back to spin the great wheel of resurrection choices…

The mantra:

With this karmic spin,

A new life I begin

“Just a-lookin’ for a home” (Tex Ritter, “Boll weavel”)

I didn’t know Frog Applause was updating again until someone liked a comment I made years ago. If these were reruns they’d be on a regular schedule, not skipping a different day every week.

Better than having been a Beetle Bailey, I guess.

Dude… I think we might have met. I was a potato.

We’ve all been there.

Really? —Good for you!

In a past life, I was a young guy. —Or was that just a daydream? Hard to differentiate at age [censored]….