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Opossum
they used to call it Opossum Dive Diner
thats not just any place but the place
where racoons fight n argue for left out left over tasty cat food and chow
where blue-jays greet alike visitors from all walks and crawls of gods creatures
where mother stray-cat con kittens alert watches her offspring play with food from an oval waiters tray carelessly placed on those steps leading nowhere but into the dark spooky house
where home is for all three mama and papa and baby de Opossum a local variety more often admired as road-kill than alive
the vacant neighboring building whose roof slowly is caving in to age and neglect has become a wild life habitat
just watch him the froggy kitchen chef awakening chasing one purring cat from his meat cutting board by throwing his cleaver towards a rat
the busboy is ducking as from the corner of his good eye he watches in disbelief
the racoons sans argument vacate the battleground leaving a jumping frog on a hot stove in charge of the kitchen
retreating outdoors the papa of Opossum is bringing one car to a screeching halt only to be rear ended by another
the cat says "never mind they always use this same stupid trick"
a black crow looking on agrees to such "its just an opossum playing dead"
and we hear in opossum dialect a scared voice afraid of harm done to him who now resembles a flattened fat rodent con long tail and tire tracks
in papa opossums honor they call it now Opossum Drive Diner
helmut s. 98/ revised 4/99
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