Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 03, 2015

What’s that, a sphincter on your plate?Dang! We got another shipment of

fake calamari again!

Visual hallucination, do you hear anything?

That’s caused by wearing spectercles.

A spectator on your plate? No fans on the field!

Wait! What?I see it! I see it!I would not have believed it if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes.Or is that just a conjour-trick with dry ice?

Karate class in a cool room.Everybody has a wisp of steam coming off the top of their head.

One day I hallucinated an entire intricate world and universe.Now it won’t go away.

What! A ghost on your paté?Is it the fattened waterfowl’s revenge?

That’s no specter, those are bunny ears.Spiritus sancti.The word is Om.

Wax that pate!

LET DOGSNIFF POST AT WILL!!!

Adlai Stevenson called – he wants his doppelganger back.

And he’s left exactly that same call on my answering machine three times a week for over two years.I don’t even know what it is he is selling.I think it is a recorded message.It might be the same guy that did the voice for the satellite TV with free DVR offer.I’ve become quite accustomed to it now, and I’m afraid I would miss it if it ever stopped. I’m also afraid I might not miss it if it stopped. It’s funny how things become a part of the comfortable background buzz you don’t even notice.

…and it’s haunting Europe.