Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for October 11, 2017

I had no idea that cryptids wore underANYTHING.

… Burma Shave.

Rickshaw aircrafts reminds me of glider aircrafts. When younger these gliders were often featured on TV. They were pulled in air, by engine aircraft then let loose to glide along.

Shamehole. What a charming appellation! I predict that I will soon begin calling people shameholes and that it will become a new thing on the interwebs. I can hardly wait to see what they decide it means!

I got thru it, like a Betty Davis movie.

I am reminded of a certain James Joyce novel.

Random words asparagus.

Is Teresa channeling her post Larry Ferlinghetti/Ezra Pound haiku ?

Some childhoods yield only the torture of scarecrow props.

kakistocracy (English pronunciation: /kækɪsˈtɑkɹəsi/) is a system of government which is run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. … It was also used by English author Thomas Love Peacock in 1829, but gained significant usage in the 21st century.

Kakistocracy – Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy

William Burroughs would cut random words from newspapers and throw them into a hat. Then he would blindly take one out after another and make sentences.

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/burroughs-cutup.html

The faded argyle wallpaper does little to ameliorate the dreary, desultory frame of shamehole of mind.

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Don’t worry, Aunt Nessie, I’ll buy you more Depends, and we can laugh at those brainless idiots on the telly.

“And as you join the Good Ship Earth,

And you mingle with the dust,

You’d better leave your underpants

With someone you can trust."

Scarecrow “props”, as in-

a) supports

b) propellers

c) decorative items on a stage

d) respect

e) all or some or none of the above

f) yeah, like that’s the important question to focus on!

Thanks, Teresa.

Yes Thank You Treesa!

This quaint bricolage reminds me not so much of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (A Coney Island of the Mind) or Ezra Pound, il miglior fabbro (as T.S. Eliot acknowledged in an appropriated phrase), two (or three, with Eliot) of my favorite 20th century poets, as it does rather of Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) and some of his word salad verse. As for meaning hidden behind turns of phrase or collocations, only Sr. Teresa of the Perpetual Lame, your distinguished author, can know for sure, if in fact anyone can. The associations must be intensely personal, as they were in my poetasting days….

Three times the charm of a missed flight, but that’s alright; snacks such as sardines on a flight isn’t so plentiful. Now watch your step as you return back into the lobby..

SHAMEHOLE. Another addition to my Frog Applause vocabulary book.