"JEREMIAH", NEW RESIDENT ON BUBBA'S POND

 "JEREMIAH", NEW RESIDENT ON BUBBA'S POND

 I have a squatter---an uninvited

    guest--- hangin' out, regular,

like an old forgotten

    relative, who, one day

just showed up

     to stay    

I kinda envy him...he just

    sits there cool (me I'm

hot this August) 

    and seems to enjoy

hisself immensely

Why, I'll swanny, some days

    it seems like he 

don't move

     for fifteen hours

at a stretch

But don't be misled, that

    little toad is a'gonna

get fat…he flicks out that

    long quick tongue of his'n

and scarfs-up every bug

    or fly within reach

But get this, my frog is

    a toad---with class

Why he "smells the roses,"

    so-to-speak, as he 

goes thru his little life

I oft catch 'im smellin'

    of my little pond

flower, floatin' there...

    (don't know what it is---

the seed just blew in
     and it grow'd )

Sometimes, I think he is

      tempted

to eat it...my flower

Now don't you, my reader

    be say'n 

"Bubba, eat some frog legs!"

O No! for you see, Bubba

    is a nature-bonder...

(I have even named my 

     squatter-frog--"Jeremiah,")

an' we have bonded

Might say, "we're friends"---

    Both up early, when

things are quiet...and we

  "talk"

We CROAK a little back and forth,

     tho' I'll admit I can't 

understand him...and I ain't

     much of a croaker, myself

So here we are, me and Jeremiah,

     on this journey thru life

and I reckon I'm getting kind

    of fond of him---

he really don't bother nobody...

an' he can stay as long as he wants,

     like a long-lost uncle.

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"Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog":  Three Dog Night  (cartoon)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2wutEzjy_E

MIL

15 August 2015

1024 hrs.