Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for June 24, 2018

Wait, please, Frog Applause just turn over! can not even die without read some comic first.

Sorry, Nurse told me I was flat lining…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2018

Should I be relieved or concerned that I’m not on the list?

Do not have the complexities in the apt. complex.

My story is much too sad to be told,

But practically everything leaves me totally cold.

The exception I know is the gist

When I’m out on a quiet spree,

Fighting vainly the old ennui,

And I suddenly check and refresh that special list.

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I get no kick from champagne.

Mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all.

So tell me why I catch my breath

When I get a kick out of death?

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Some, they may go for cocaine.

I’m sure that if I took even one sniff

It would bore me terrifically, too.

Unless I could also kill you.

The bird, knowing that the snake is certainly about to eat it, cannot look away. There is a moment of perfect stillness where neither moves or looks away, as the bird is unable to move quickly enough to escape, and knows it, while the snake is quick enough to snare the bird in a single swift strike, and knows it.

Neither does life. Don’t defer things, don’t pine for days of yore. This moment is all you have, forever more.

“This breaking news just in… Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!” -

-Chevy Chase

Death by a thousand Wikipedia “Notable Deaths” lookups ….

My mother and grandmother used to call the obituary column in the newspaper, the Irish Sports Page, because it was the first thing that the women would read in the paper ( followed by the engagements and nuptials section). The "Irish Sports Page provided fodder for the daily gossip.

Every day I’m not on the Irish Sports Page is a good one !

I’ve seen animals listed on that page. Racehorses, a gorilla that had to be killed after some neglectful parents allowed their toddler to wander into his habitat, that last reproducing mate of a soon-to-be-extinct species, etc.

Wow. Koko the lowland gorilla that learned sign language died. Age 46. I found him listed on that notables page. I’m not sure I would have found out otherwise or this soon. Not that this is earthshaking news, but still…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla)

Notable, big cheese, big enchilada, big kahuna, big name, celebrity, dignitary, famous person, heavyweight, high muckamuck, luminary, mogul, notable, personality, public figure, star, superstar, top banana, worthy, big wig, fat cat, big wheel, big deal, nabob, the big cheese, notorious, bodacious, somebody.

Unnotable, common, familiar, hidden, inconspicuous, infamous, inferior, insignificant, normal, obscure, ordinary, poor, regular, secret, standard, trivial, typical, unextraordinary, unimportant, unimpressive, unknown, unnoticeable, unremarkable, usual, vague, commonplace, inconsequential, negligible, worthless, big zero, casual, dinky, entry level, exiguous, immaterial, inadequate, inappreciable, inconsequent, inconsiderable, insufficient, light, little, measly, minor, no biggie, paltry, petty, picayune, puny, runt, scanty, shoestring, shrimp, skimpy, small, small potatoes, small-time, trifling, two bit, unconsidered, wimpy, lame.

The hourglass gets all the attention, while the grains of sand do all the work.

An actor or actress will tell you that doing a death scene can be very stimulating.

Time waits for no man and it won’t wait for me. Jick Magger

ah too be awake widely till the sun goes down

I did not even know there was such a list. Nor does it much matter. When I check out, I won’t be around to see if I made the list. And, be honest, isn’t that what most of us most care about?