{"id":6239,"date":"2025-01-22T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=6239"},"modified":"2025-01-22T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T16:24:08","slug":"poem-leap-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/22\/poem-leap-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Leap Frog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not surprisingly, if a frog falls into hot water, it will jump out. Perhaps surprisingly, if a frog is in water that is slowly heated, it will not jump out even if it is boiled. As a nation, we are in hot water. May we take a flying leap out of this damnable jacuzzi before it is too late.<\/p>\n

Leap Frog<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Wee are like frogs
\nQuite jumpy
\nIn dammed hot water
\nAs a flee for all
\nAnd still
\nAs cold-blooded creatures
\nWith come odious adapt ability
\nWe can per severe
\nIn chill conditions
\nAs cool as can be
\nEmploying our reptilian brains
\nAnd such webbed feat
\nAbiding well
\nAs razing temp
\nExecuting
\nPrefect repose
\nBe lated
\nAs he scald
\nTo that unnoticed boiling point
\nAn incremental lack of change
\nUltimately
\nStill
\nKicking
\nThe buck it
\nAn unsound conundrum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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