Frogs in a Cardboard Box
Frogs in a Cardboard Box By Russell D. Nomer Copyright Russell Nomer August 23, 2026 All rights reserved ASCAP Work ID# 938718196 ISRC$ QT5AM2518196 I was barely tall enough to reach the hotel door When we chased a dozen frogs across the carpet floor Shaking out a Pampers box, laughing in the dark You made a rainy highway feel like a holy park Then you'd throw your hands up high, a monster in the room Saying blah blah I'm Dracula, coming through the gloom We were hysterical, safe inside your grin Before the world got loud, before adulthood set in You changed my brother's diapers, held my little hand You belonged to someone else. You still made dark feel planned For the woman with the biggest laugh a room could hold That Pampers box still shaking in the back part of my skull Now the quiet sits where all that noise had been Holding summer nights before I knew that kind of pain They took the sound with her. We sat down in the night Rest easy in the quiet, goodnight, good...