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Nov 2022
In my time, as knowledge increased,
there was a parable about boiling live frogs.

Many preachers, professional and slave,
confess to using the parable,
to this very day;
even after witnessing the death of frogs,
and the escape of frogs.

If you are one of those, repeaters,
let this itty bitty left behind idea do
true to any with a will to know,
is it so? Must you be true to you?

Think boiling water and lobster.
You know what happens,
lobsters can't jump,
but frogs can, but
not from boiling water.

That parable is a lie. It is not true,
frogs die immediately, nada im  middle
splash croak. Immediate.
- ah but if the heating is so gradual,
- the frogs whole bio-tech goes gaga/

And being wired with super sensitive skin,
the itty bitty bimetalic whorls of magic metal, like the analog in frog skin,
expands, in each itty bitty frog
transistor, analog mercury switch
kinda like, trip wire and a flare, there
surface temperature measured signal
sent, spring
sprung, frog don't cook, but lives to croak
another day.

No excusable uses of the frog slowly cooking are not in actual function, lies.
last thought before sleep
Ken Pepiton
Written by
Ken Pepiton  76/M/Pine Valley CA
(76/M/Pine Valley CA)   
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