“Wow what a letdown!”
“All of my life from the time I was just a
scrawny tadpole swimming around in the ooze I have looked up to you, the Master
of our Species, The Pinnacle of Amphibian success, an Evolutionary Miracle of Selection,
an Olympian Swimmer, the best bug catcher in the pond, sitting on your royal lily-pad!”
“Hum Hum, Hum Hum, Excuse me I believe I
have a fly in my throat.”
“That’s better, now what was I saying? “
“Oh yes, I looked up to you! But now that
I am grown you seem worn down sitting like a bump on a log, as they say. The
slowest swimmer, the worst fly catcher, and don’t even think about jumping. You
are just hoping that an insect dies of natural causes so that you can catch him!”
“Oh well I guess that time waits for no
frog.”
“But don’t worry, I will bring you food
and divert the birds far away that would eat you. You will always be my
inspiration even if you did not turn out to be a Prince Charming, but merely an
overachieving Amphibian.”
Jim
July 2021
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