Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for June 13, 2018

How do you rate my fair barbiturate in sleepy eye dreams after the bar closes?

How about an unsteady drip?

You bet your life … just say the secret word … it’s a common word and is something you always have with you … and it’s not “duck”

And the sponge he has become?

Another lost weekend, eh, m’dear?

I’m easily replaced by a cane, a cudgel, a cat o’ nine tails… and a dry dental drill.

… now, that’s a positive attitude…

… and I’m just as addictive…

… a steady drip implies a hospital stay…

… that hurts my feelings…

… the opposite of what morphine does…

… I bet you say that to all the guys…

… and you are easily replaced by steady rounds of beer…

… but, honey, you are my heroine, I’m addicted to you…

… umph…some lesson to teach all the kids not reading this strip…

Replaced, perhaps. But never surpassed.

Let me know when you don’t need me anymore.

Morphine may be deadly,

But what about spaghetti?

She likes me. She actually likes me!

Painless and brainless, I think I’ll morph into something more comfortable.

A morphine drip coffee maker might be interesting.

A steady drip of morphine into that empire neckline may stain your unmentionables. In another vein, it may cloud your thinking, induce temporary bliss, and eventually lose all effect, as with my uncle when he was dying of leukemia back in the mid-20th century….

Marianne, sister: http://tinyurl.com/nga6x82