Photo by Maxim Hopman on Unsplash
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, has been working with the keeper in the burgeoning field of other life forms—like trees and other plants, having here-to-fore unknown abilities to communicate with each other, and with humans: if you are of a certain mindset and you take a walk in the woods—the thinking goes, you may well hear the trees talking to you; all of which may be behind the trekking of Wis. Repub politicians to visit Florida palm trees around Mara largo, the latest being Tommy T. who cashed in a tall stack of Wisconsin chips in order to make the Repub version of a pilgrimage to their polluted political Mecca.
Did a respectable Wisconsin oak tell Tommy, “Go date a palm if you insist on staying in the Repub game?”
We will never know what tree talk might have occurred, but it likely has nothing to do with trees objecting to being used as canine territorial markers. It is easier to believe that Tommy and Kleefisch are at least smart enough to have heard the trees tell them that when they walk the big Mara largo dog they must take along a plastic bag, a very large plastic bag.
