Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 21, 2017

It’s only because you didn’t stay up ’til after midnight to read Frog Applause.

Always better to look good than to feel good.

Always better to look good than to feel good.

Look up to feel the night of the sky..

It is sotrue for nurses and a lonely soul in a hospital bed.

Then the med nurse and the horror that follows.

I guess it isn’t the amount of the effort, but the quality of it.

Yes, you are a handsome woman, and so modest.

That one’s gonna have one full dance card, right there.

Beauty is only skin deep… Ugly goes all the way to the bone… What’s bred in the bone… Will out in the flesh… Blessed with a beautiful face… Cursed with an ugly brain.

…I saw a meme meme meme the other day that had two magazine cover shots of the same young female models. In one she looked just like a typical 13 year old…the next all made up and overly sexualized…the moral of the story…90% perspiration, bro…this is America. You can be anything you want to be…why try to be something your are not?…Get real, baby…we’re all the Joker on the inside….15 minutes of fame…80 minute cds…you gotta grab that ring…you have to give it all you got…the end justifies the means…thy shall not covet? We do in America, baby!…live free or die/ become just another hick in a pickup truck/ second place is the first loser/ Grasshopper the BBQ grill / sell land for trinkets/ you don’t know what you got ‘til its Sunday and the Browns are already losing by 17 (!)…the stadium is jinxed let’s build them a new one…my kid can eat paint chips at school…my china says made in America and my Ford says made in Mexico…and here I am -sans make up going out wrapping a scarf around my neck…must be nice to that freedom…must be nice to be able to afford not listening to the press…no one should value what the lame celebrity says…ok-except Jesus…even if he was fake…I’d still believe….

Hmmm… would I look better with some clothes on?

Why is it so hard for other people to love me?

I do it with such ease and style.

I didn’t come here to be insulted!

Of course, I will admit that it is not hard to look better than me….

Well!

I Never!

Ha

I love, I love to do my thing,

Ha…and I, and I don’t need, no one else

Sometimes I feels so nice, good god

I jump back, I want to kiss myself

I’ve got soul, huh, and I’m super

Hey

-James Brown: Super Bad