Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for March 30, 2022

Soon, I had misread the majority of it, and skewed its position by greater then ninety degrees.

Looking at this print and now etched in my inner foreheads chalkboard. This is granted in the books forward and title page.

Now, not to be erased by a chalk eraser, but put in my enforcer.

The Rolodex File… Yes, shortening breads X-File.

It’s an open and shut case.

The Man fought the law and the law won.

To quote the landlord on Coming to America when Prince Akeem and Semmi are shown a poor room with the outline of a murder victim and his dog. “Damn shame what happened to that dog.” (My point: perhaps the book needs to be outlined. “Damn shame what happened to that book.” Hey, it’s 2am and I’m feeling extra lame.

…OK, I believe in no dog ears…

…and no highlighting…

…or writing in the margins…

…sometimes, even washing your hands first…

…and even kissing some holy books before opening them…

…but exact replacement is going too far…

…like, my brother keeps saying he don’t know nothing about Fight Club…

…he is freakin’ fantastic about Fight Club…

…but, why?…

…not letting anyone know you’ve been secretly reading Steven King…

…is just as equally crazy…

…but only secretly commenting on F.A. is not crazy at all…

…not at all…

The exact position of the book when found was on my shelf.

Do we decimalise it? Or is the book already in the Dewey decimal system? If not, how do we prove it exists?

Why is it always in the last place i look?

Finders keepers, losers readers. (I don’t believe this; it just fit my attempt at a rhyme.)

Good thing you found it. Now, instead of having to pay for the book, you just have to pay some overdue fees at the library.

I’ve read that book. It was too predictable.

I wouldn’t read too much into the book’s position if I were you. We all know it’s bound to turn out not to be worth the paper it’s printed on.

A used to be “page turner”, now is nestled on the shelf in the used book aisle @ The Froglandia Bathmat Factory!

Story hour was discontinued briefly when the police were investigating the author for a crime he committed years ago! Evidently they found him and the book in question, on the floor, at his cabin in the woods, where he wrote! He, in fact, was murdered but they found the story in the book named his murderer…so they took her in custody, booked her and was sentenced to life! Another case of a mad mistress gone wild!

She regrets her actions to this day, but it’s too late…he’s gone forever!

We could each feel the crime scene tape tickle our backsides as we gazed at the book. As usual, we tried to look like we were thinking hard.

It was Judge Jones, in the library, with a legal tome. He literally threw the book at him.

It’s a stable position, but he wants to be a paperback writer.

Throw the book at him!

…it seems this mystery isn’t by the book…

…but, perhaps it is under it…

…well…

…anyway…

…the heroine was a real Paige Turner…

…book smart…

…with highlights in her hair…

…

Yet another success for the DIY book on How to Look …!

It’s important to have documented it.

GPS. Pretty boring position, really. Spoiler alert, it’s no karma sutra. More interesting might be, what position were you in when reading the last page?

Why is the positon of the book relevant? Maybe it’s not relevant but just seems relevant. “Frog Applause” often makes the irrelevant seem relevant just because…

I would never ever comment on Frog Applause.

Is this odd item one of those three-pages-plus-covers “Artists’ Books” we sometimes see? https://tinyurl.com/3rtazzf6

And if so, how did it get “there” if not by being precisely so placed by The Artist?

In other words, this is an Installation Cartoon, and the query is merely part of the art! Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum, what was to be demonstrated, i.e., which is what we were looking for….)

The position of the book is firmly Republican.

Upside down, backward, and inside out…