possums

It must be time that possum mommies kick out their possum babies. I know that possums have like a three-month childhood and generally die before they are two years old, but I don't know about their year cycle. I do have evidence. Baby possums in the almond tree. Baby possum slouching across the yard from the compost ehap across the violets towards the delapidated shed. And now, a baby possum corpse at the foot of the stairs. I almost photographed it but it had ants on it and I figure you can get macabre pictures of dead baby possums any time you want to without me adding to the pile. Just google-image "dead possum" and you'll get a hatfull. Easy. You will even find a cartoon of a zombie possum, or zombies and possums, I can't tell which.
It had been dead for a while, but the nice fellow and I had been going up and down the back stairs all day for various reasons and hadn't seen it right there at the foot of the stairs. My thought is it died elsewhere in the yard and Truffle found it and brought it in that far and then lost interest, possibly remembering how unenthusiastic we were when she brought a stiff little rat corpse to the back door. She was utterly uninterested in it while I was dithering about how to dispose of it but became a little interested when I was actually burying it. I had a time thinking about where to bury it that it would not be disturbed until it had finished decaying.


On other fronts:
Hurricane photos by Dr. Ben Marble who is the man who said "fuck yourself" to Dick Cheney. Via the whole darned web.

Chapter eight is long and I don't know how long it will take to get it up.




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