Bad Amphibian

good amphibians would call the tune
the toad whistled a tune too weird
(weird a socially safe term) for polite
atmospheres, these polite atmospheres
which the majority of community
amphibians had boarded or hitched
on the like-minded line to do spiritual
warfare upon what was widely agreed

to be too much mental and moral
weirdness these days (weirdness the socially
safe term), and the toad who whistled the weird
tune happened to let his organic
dining utensil linger externally
just in time for the wrong pair of good
amphibians to be unable to miss
as they crawled along the walkway that wound

throughout the city's famous scummy park.
Meanwhile a pair of senior frogs
observed from the sidelines and one
of the senior frogs tapped his cane
as though ready for a downtown courting night
but only burped a chuckle, and like a laid-back
lounge crooner said to the other, "if my studies
do not fail me, those are two red salamanders."