Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for July 31, 2017

In case you must fondle a walrus, or in case said walrus might have to tickle you.

(One tusk for the task of transfixing, the other tusk, to titillate.)

Gets a lot of really creative ideas from pinnapedterest.

In all my life, seeing a Walrus up close, shocked me to near death.

“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to talk of many things: of shoes, and ships – and sealing wax – of cabbages and kings.” - Lewis Carroll

He came flop-wallowing from the water, stinking of raw fish and testosterone.

How unfortunate for the oysters, they had not prepared for their fate..

Be prepared: Tennessee Tuxedo and Chumley too.

I think I need to study some more.

I’m never prepared for anything, not since my Boy Scout days at least.

Do walruses have poor vision? (Too lazy to google).

Ivorymember your lessons, Penniped in hand, ready for a stinky queaasy test.

The Boy Scouts were not prepared for Trump’s stinky speech.

How long are the Republicans going to let Trump bash America in the head with a chair?

My favorite part was the seagulls.  

I love to feel the ocean breezes in my hair

I wanna hear those waves and seagulls everywhere

All that golden sunshine, well, I can’t wait

The salt in the air makes it great  

Port Aransas

Dame Margot Pontoon warned her ice skating partner, Sir Rudolph Nerves-On-Edge, that if he didn’t shave off that scratchy stubble, there would be repercussions.

Sure enough, while performing a lift…

The thrill of victory, the agony of deteeth!

Eye Yam, the yegg man.

Best fin’ers in the bizness.

Why don’t you ask him if he’s going to stay

Why don’t you ask him if he’s going away

… Don’t say that you love me

Tusk!

Ith thuff whnth youth onlyth haff oneth tuskth.

Oh, the fragility of paper collage flowers!

Sweet, sweet the sting (to swipe a phrase from Tori Amos, from her Beekeeper album)! No disembodied walrus with customized tusks shall undo me, for, lo, my preparedness!

Enjoy your summer days at the beach (I shall not go for the cheap old pun, “…daze,” leaving such to Cartoon-Boy, proprietor of PBS on this site) while ye may. Be prepared! —Wine, women, song, funky walruses; come what may, or August.

Fern.

Fern bites stone.

Tusk stabs fern.

Fern Time Lapse · https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9c9Zi3WFVRc

I’m guessing the lesson is to not touch stinky walruses, seagulls, or paper flowers.