Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 08, 2022

I’d be insecure too if I were under constant threat of being pecked to death by ducks.

…and yet, the vapors are real…

Anyone walking around a pond frequented by ducks is entirely too familiar with duck flux…

You guys know that a cold hungry duck is like a grey goose turning to be a blue goose or in gay company.

Hungry ducks with the flux

In honor of my Father, who taught me what flux is:

Handy Man by James Taylor.

It would be so much less trouble if the exchange of energies could proceed in a linear fashion, and not have all these Flo and Eddie moments. That’s the source of all the insecurity. Better to be a turtle.

Constant flux

and hungry ducks

and little lambs eat ivy.

(Captain Kangaroo trigger warning)

Love the shoes, hon!

Do patent leather shoes really reflect up?

Those nuns sure knew how to slap the bahjeebees out of you! Some student were so afraid to go to school, their anxieties hit an all time high….

It’s a good thing that duck bills are blunt.

Gotta get new glasses! I first thought she said _"of constant fu— " … Nevermind!

Those slippers are lovely. Are they made of rubies? There’s no place like home…

Been hangin’ around the Space Captain too long.

Beware of duck butter … it can cause Ducky Pox …!

Existential angst? It’s a constant wonder that I’m still here.

I fear being nibbled to death.

Them ain’t ducks. Them is trucks! (Partial transliteration of a faux Latin poem.)

I don’t trust ducks. They look so clean and harmless as they paddle around the pond, just waiting for the right moment to launch their hidden torpedoes.

Besides, this is all very Old Hat. 6th c. B.C., Herakleitos of Ephesos: “you can’t step twice into the same river.” Modern so-called existentialism is more like nihilistic fatalism, some would say. One thinks not only of Sartre and Camus, but of the tragic deaths such as of Jean Seberg….

…a science icon as big as Neil deGrasse Tyson stating that since the universe is basically math…

…that, in itself…

…practically guarantees that it was created…

…has flipped my brain to overload…

…now, I feel like a avatar in someone …

…or things…

…futuristic Playstation…

…and if it’s my life that passes for entertainment…

…well…

…I’m just needing time to program the fact that Gilligan’s Island is higher story telling then The Iliad …

…and if God didn’t make little green apples…

…who or what did…

…I keep thinking…

…someone keeps hitting the controller and complaining…

…why is this thing stuck?…

caff -

EINE …!?!?!

Well flux a duck.