Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 10, 2022

I’m happy to pretend that you’re actually a chorus line getting set to tap dance.

Let’s play Hyde and Seek,

Peek a Boo.. I see you..

Now you’re IT...

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…or things on me, either. (Like bows on the kitten heels? MeeeOW.)

Am I in a bar, is it closing time, and am I Jerry Lee Lewis?

Like the fact that you are a hideous human?

Being among other hideous humans, as you are, it is hardly noticeable!

But you really should get some more comfortable, and more practical, shoes.

Do patent leather shoes really reflect up?

If they do, there’s no hiding the truth!

A lot of me isn’t hidden, I know, especially when I’m dressed in that Old Gold cigarette pack costume.

…but those are the very things that I love most about you…

…all I see is a flannel shirt that needs put away…

…it’s not that the legs are just beautiful…

…it is how they are held…

…toe tips…

…(the same toe tip- reversed?)…

…so much for the imagination to imagine…

…mentioning the things you don’t want to be seen…

…implies an intimacy of knowledge already known…

…or just discovered…

…your slip is showing….

…you had your skirt tucked into your underwear…

…you fear intimacy…

…but wish to have that someone that desires it with you dispite that fact…

…[ this is exactly why I asked you to ‘pretend’ not to see this things]…

…ditto…

…dear…

…ditto…

fnord

Is someone stocking you?

My life has always been about pretense and obfuscation. It’s why I became a politician.

Now you must practice the willing suspension of disbelief!

I don’t not know why, but was researching double negatives and came across a new word for me: litotes which is mostly defined as an “Ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary” … double positives exist too, (yeah, right) …!

Strangely, I never noticed your cankles before.

good point

Next time, they decided to go with somebody a bit taller, to take pictures of the dance.

I see nothing! Nothing!

Well, there is the little matter of the tiny furniture in the background. Either you are one very tall lady, or the furnishing in that place where you are is quite small (alternatively, very far from you, in a huge room).

Nice legs, though, all eight of them. (Why does that remind me of something James Bondian?)

They refuse to skirt the issue.

“please” is the magic word ;+)

frogs all over are applauding Teresa’s peripheral anatomy