Tuesday, January 27, 2004
'elegy for didelphis virginiana'
oh possum, opossum
i wish that we’d been friends
for with your pink prehensile tail
you could have hung from my bunk rail
alas but that you climbed the trail
and stepped upon that road
oh possum, opossum
i wish i’d known before
you happily set out to go
across a road you did not know
on which a car that would not slow
decided your poor fate
oh possum, opossum
if only i had seen
that you would not be rescued right
before there came another light
and of you i’d not need to fright
of bending down to help
oh possum, opossum
if only i’d been bold
for while you suffered in the dark
i had the time to stop and park
to rescue you from death’s cold mark
and i just drove on by
