The Shout

The Frogs Beneath Each day the frogs contemplate emerging from their twenty year coma and each day they decide against.

Until the one day they hear what can only be raindrops spattering the desert above, slipping into cracks, waking long dormant roots, ready and willing to turn the parched soil into a pleasure garden for a week or two.

The frogs give these new developments appropriate consideration and then conclude, why bother if it’s only for a week or two.

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