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His piece  GreeTideWhen I was a little kid,I was read a bedtime storyabout a prim and proper froggy coupledoing prim and properfroggy lily-pad-housekeeping thingsfar-far removedfrom the ickyscary and squishy realitiesof the under-vernal-pond-surfaceblack-speck'djelly massesofsometimesevenvaguelyFulleresquesculpturesbeing created by the-(egg-bloated)-femalebearing hercroak-croak riderin iron-gripamplexus ---- and better thesemostly amorphous jelly-massesthan the more toadish stringsso fascinatingly/nauseatinglyreminiscent ofgrainy TV Commercial footageof some new-fanglednausea-greenish1970s Flouristan-Enhancedtoothpastebeing exuded(being ooooh ooohoooh OOOOOOOOOZED)from thealuminium tubebeing neatlytwisted aroundthe shoved-onplastic keyall smily-facedHave A Nice Day.Yes, let'severyonegive everyone around usa HAND. :)And the hand we're being givenis that of Alicefrom the Brady Bunch(taking a breakfrom her minute rice)My only partially-literateeyes and mindinterpretedthe words in that bookthat so webbed-pawdescribedthe decently-gravidfemale-soon-to-beparental unitMrs. (or Ms.) Froggyas havingas her fist name:GreeTide -CamelCasesplit open by hyphenonly in the callsof aspiringyoung males'dewlapsexpanded as balloons.And yet Gree-Tidemade sense in aknee-high-too-a-grasshopperworldwhen GreeTide seemed so logical'cuz it sounded like the callof the first spring peeperslast pockets of snowstill lingering...Only on that daywhen my imagination began to dieand I (supposedly)became an adult,did I remember the factthat GreeTide's namewas actually Gertrude.Tru-dee?Yeah,True, 'dat.

Inspired me to write of childhood

And of course I went further

Probably too far as per

The Front Bottoms - Twin Sized Mattress

youtu.be/HKEhqY9RnRs

(Orchestral keyboard version)

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