Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for February 19, 2022

“If I sat on one end of the balcony, the crows would gather on the railing at the other end and talk about me; and edge closer, little by little, till I could almost reach them; and they would sit there, in the most unabashed way, and talk about my clothes, and my hair, and my complexion, and probable character and vocation and politics …” Mark Twain, Following the Equator

Come at me, if your street is so weak you can get cred for roughing up crazy old farts. It’s the desert, I ain’t paying the water bill required to have a lawn to tell the damn kids to keep off of.

Beats the Black Death plague by a mile.

I am part of this club. Indeed, a charter member.

The Crow/Film synopsis

The night before his wedding, musician Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) and his fiancée are brutally murdered by members of a violent inner-city gang. On the anniversary of their death, Eric rises from the grave and assumes the gothic mantle of the Crow, a supernatural avenger. Tracking down the thugs responsible for the crimes and mercilessly murdering them, Eric eventually confronts head gangster Top Dollar (Michael Wincott) to complete his macabre mission.

With apologies:

This bird is a lost caws …!

Intelligence is picking up something new every day. Wisdom is letting something old go every day. You don’t have to be Clark Kent to be invulnerable. Just sayin’.

A child’s tears are my Kryptonite.

Consider the poor ostrich whose hide is vulnerable.

But now that you mention it…

Exposing vulnerabilities may seem counterintuitive, even naive and strategically bankrupt in our winner takes all society, but there is strength and great power in its practice, though it is not for the faint of heart nor unimaginative.

Our very own plague may be for a variety of reasons.

It’s my birthday and I am crying for more expensive gifts.

Pet Peed(at bath mat shop on a Saturday Night).

What do crows know? They steal dill pickle slices stuck to parking lots and hoard other stuff like eyeballs to line their nests.

Well, it’s either that or expose your vulnerabilities and still be plagued by them! On the whole, the former seems if not better at least less embarrassing….

You just seem to have a character deficiency.