Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 11, 2021

Freash from the green white houses of rose garden. Better than weed.

…what a good year for the roses…

…many blooms still linger there…

…by anyothername…

…they smell as sweet…

…except I wouldn’t say roses smelled sweet?…

…I never go…

…mmmm, sugar…

…my mom used to say when you smell a rose a miracle is about to happen…

…then, like a mic, she would drop a rose…

…of course Pete Rose was raised from the dead…

…and Jebus never rose but was raised…

…but Mz. Burritt deserves a raise…

…and Delbert Grape raisins from the dead, 2…

…you promised me a rose garden…

…but you didn’t telling me about all the pricks in it…

…and…

…what about the other flowers?…

… Dick, Danny, Don, Erik?…

…Gold Medal, Pillsbury?…

Roses are red , violets are blue / I’ll smell the roses , it’s better than poo.

When you smell too long the roses, the roses smell you back.

Perhaps he’ll concentrate on the other flowers just as fully when he gets to them.

Try the geraniums, that’d learn ya!

According to the Bathmat Factory’s " Bible of Scents, Aromas & Other Pungent Smells". It is described:

To get the full effect of Roses, one must use two cone-like shaped funnels and insert the small end into the nostrils for a full satisfying Aroma and utterly mind boggling sensation. The same procedure can be practiced with other flowers also. The Bathmat factory has a great selection of cones, in many sizes and colors for your enhanced pleasures of sniffing, snorting and whiffing!

He’s hoping this new, unorthodox, allergist he’s seeing will finally bring him some relief.

He’s the Rahsaan Roland Kirk of floral appreciation.

Gaggle, Gaggle, Gaggle … because I noticed:

“They say a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But according to researchers, the flowers have been gradually losing their evocative scent – because gardeners have bred them for their appearance rather than their smell”

Nothin’ like doin’ a couple of lines of roses first thing in the morning!

I don’t know, it must have been the roses

The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair

I don’t know, maybe it was the roses

All I know, I could not leave her there

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Robert Hunter

Pre tend too.

Delta Dawn what’s that flower you have on.

Could it be a faded rose from days from days gone by.

The last time I tried to smell Rose, she slapped me. Lilly was a bit more receptive, but told me not to linger. Today, I have daisy on my mind. Wish me luck.

Waiting for him to sneeze.

The word we use for the sound is onomatopoetic — it imitates the sound that we associate with the sneeze itself. We English speakers think that the sneeze noises sounds like “achoo,” and, hence, “achoo” is the word we use to describe the sound of a sneeze. Except: That’s probably backward.

You could have different flowers at each nostril. It’d be like an olfactory “Dark Side of the Moon”.

What “other flowers”? I see only the red and yellow roses (as they are called by the Creator).

Besides, the guy is pretty resourceful, with a paper tubule up each nostril!