(Thank you all for sending me Good Tongue stories. Who knew
there were So Many. Someone asked what the difference is between
frenum and frenulum. Here’s the dictionary’s answer:
Frenum is a synonym of frenulum. ) And now a poem:
Five recent emails beginning with this:
Join Our Community
and then, A Money Pitch:
As you know,
The Public Theater
Raphael Warnock
Beto O’Rourke
The New York Public Library
As You Know, Who Doesn’t Need Money Right Now.
My Join Our Community
With No Money Poem
intends to explain
How Happy I Am That You Are Here
That You Are There
That You Read These Poems
an Send Me Some
That My Tongue Poem Yesterday inspired Norman
to eat a tongue sandwich
that we are all here
enduring this crazy time together
never heard the word Omnicron before
knowing that all of life Is One Big Poem
and We the biggest possible We
are writing this poem together.
I
Ok, ok. Here’s a tongue story. In high school I took ap biology. We were given an assignment to learn a lesson in statistics. We were to go through the Carmel phone book - not a big missive - and count off every fifth name in it. This was our random sample. Then we were to call each number in our sample and ask whoever answered the phone to try to roll their tongue sideways and count how many people could do it. Apparently this ability is a genetic trait Mae were to see if it was a recessive or dominant characteristic.
Most of us felt afterward that what we’d learned was that our teacher, Mr Hill could be a bit sadistic instead of the science lesson we were intended to learn.
Love “life is one big poem and that we are writing this poem together.” Thank you for putting the words to feeling ❤️