Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for February 28, 2020

Put That in your pipe and smoke it. I hear it’s legal now, though pretty lame compared to licking a frog.

Mr. Slaphappy wears her heart on his sleeve.

…his lady bug is giving him a Johnson…

…aaw… a V.D. bug…

…will leap day create a leap Frog?…

…lady bug badges are given to the gender fluid scouts in Boy scouts…

…which brings up a sore subject…

…if you are born that way…

…do you have to be dyslexic?…

…do you have to give into the urge to wear pantyhose?…

…do you have to drink two 25oz. Natty Daddys every night?…

…do you have to watch Picard every Thursday?…

…and the new Clone Wars on Friday?…

…do you have to write the same damn thing every single morning, the very first thing you do every damn morning?…

…or can you be what you want to be?…

…even if every ounce of your being cries…

…yes! Vote for fried green tomato flavored Lays!…

…you don’t have to go to Walmart just to get the Hot Sauce flavor!…

…I look in the mirror…

…and I don’t even know myself anymore…

Fly away fly away fly away now!

Whatever is a human on your butt for Peggy?

When buttoning up stretches your face taut.

I hear it’s just the thing to ward off coronavirus.

Ladybug, red

Violets, blue

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Is not on fire.

Why, yes. That is a ladybug. But this is not a pipe.

“Unhand me, you cad.”

It’s a ladybug refrigerator magnet.

They’re on the way to the Ladybug Picnic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX9J7WcYtxI

Wanna bet he named the ladybug Spot …?

One potato, two Potato, three potato four

Plushophilia, klismaphilia, formicophilia I adore!

What if its a male lady bug?

To each his own. But if you insist on wearing it on your sleeve, people will talk. Or write pithy comments or stream-of-consciousness versicles (verselets? small verses? versus verses? Bah! Who cares?)

Froglandia, home of the free verse!