Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 06, 2018

I challenge any departing subscribers to a duel. Or a triel, or whatever the name is for the actual number of opponents.

Make it a fortnight and the subscribers would have more time to bail. But make it Fort Apache and they’d either be trapped inside or they’d have you surrounded, and either way they wouldn’t be going anywhere.

Ok..and you Ok

Repeated offender

Poetry is kind and not kind sometimes…

Comics poetry or collage with words, either way, I stay.

I spent a fortnight in a small bar upstate one afternoon.

Reading between the lines: Orpiment = As₂S₃

I don’t want to cast aspersions, but is someone calling someone an orpiment?

Time for More Fun and Games with Ink Blots?! Yay!

Ok, I see a messed up spine and shattered pelvis, and a particularly belligerent rooster.

(Wait till the sun shines Nellie)

“I will not be ignored!”

(Just to be on the safe side, can someone warn Happy to keep an eye on his bunnies, just for a fortnight or so?)

Never gonna bail

We love you Teresa.

The second collection after the homily will be for a Sister Teresa subscription to Frog Applause.

When I was a kid, we were told that ladybugs wouldn’t bite, that they were our friends. It was supposed to be good luck if a ladybug landed on you. And, they were always red with black spots.

Years later, when I had children, we started seeing more and more yellow-orange ladybugs, till the red ones became rare.

When a yellow one landed on my daughter, I told her what I had been told, that it was a friendly bug.

The darn thing bit her! Ugsome bug!

Sister Teresa, I sincerely hope the immersion therapy helps because nobody deserves to be afraid of ladybugs. I am absolutely addicted to your work but patently refuse to seek treatment for my addiction or my inherent lameness.

With all those bailing subscribers, it’s a good thing She has revenue from the Fʀᴏɢ Aᴘᴘʟᴀᴜsᴇ™ Oᴡɴᴇᴅ Bᴀᴛʜ Mᴀᴛ Fᴀᴄᴛᴏʀʏ to fall back on.

How does one become a “subscriber”, much less one who “bails”?

Cast aside each numbing worry, one shall eventually once again receive feeling not only to their left leg, but also to their right leg..

Frog Applause is always the first thing I see when I sit down at the table for breakfast. I know, I’m a walking anachronism. But I love starting my days with my head spinning. It’s a way of establishing a new orientation for each day. Dada is truth, and the best of Frog Applause is like a Zen koan; at its worst its just bad art with words. And if my arm is longer than a sandwich, my feet can balance on the edge of the Earth.

Teresa, Teresa, Teresa … have that lame malady looked after … don’t let those post-Comics Poetry Week, post-birthday blues get you down … HA! There’s a song in there somewhere ….

The Apollo curse was broken in first leg of horse racing’s triple crown…136years since a horse won who did no or race as a two year old.

I’m still here, but I suggest that you stick with your main product.

Forgive me for my candid opinion, but I found it all quite boring. With that said, I’m not a poetry “fan” or reader beyond Kipling and Tennyson, so my opinion is not an educated one.

However, I suspect that many of your readers are also not poetry fans.

It all comes down to following your own path. Do what you will for you.

I don’t know, I find rejection by the ignorant to be quite liberating.

Even at the reception, some were predicting that the marriage would flame out before the fancy china ever got used.

A disembodied broken leg? Somebodies been peeking through my window at night. I don’t care if you do have apotemnophilia, I refuse to be bullied into adding your digits and perlicues to my aggregate noun corpse mobile, blowing gently in the flatulent spring breeze. Please remove your glabella from my window pane.

Actually there are many comics here who would love to have FA’s 31,221 followers, I would bet (if it wasn’t for me, all Teresa would have would be 31,220 – sad).

It’s like that time when Nora Barnacle asked her boyfriend Jimmy why he didn’t write sensible books that people could understand!

Too much thujone in my K-Cup yestreen.

Red Pressure Point Indicator

Yes, we do feel the love.

I’m quite dyslexic, so I skipped the cartoons with lots of writing on them. However, I saved them so I can check them when I have the time to read them. Your cartoons are so weird I don’t want to miss any of them!

Mama don’t let Chromosome

Mama don’t let Chromosome

Mama don’t let Chromosome save FA

The old go break a leg Teresa and don’t look back from the casting couch.

The Devout never flameout. Or[piment], if they do, we burn them at the stake, damned Heretics!

—Gee, what prompted that?

The gang’s all here; Froglandia is confidant in its citizenship, and the Lame shall prosper!

Thank you for putting together such an interesting piece of work with so much discipline.Your work reminds me that art is a hammer. You wield your hammer well.

Comic poetry is often cast in a bad light.

Does anyone remember what the follower count was at its height?