20.  Big Hairy Possum

 

Did you know what you were seeing,

as Seaside rose in front of you, year by year?

No, but it’s like the decline in the wildlife population.

It’s gradual.  Suddenly, there are no more jackrabbits.

Balder and them would play “Blackberry Blossom”

at Fermentations and call it “Big Hairy Possum.”

A possum was a road kill.  John Waters buying

Dog Fancy magazine at the tobacconist.

 

 

roadkill.jpg

 

 

I think Seaside had an ordinance against possums.

The possum is a marsupial related to the kangaroo.

The dogs had papers.  Rory Cochrane shoveling possums

in a dump truck in Dogtown.  Dogtown is actually Cuba, Missouri.

 


 

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