A Memorandum from the Department of Dead Animal Collection
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Saturday morning the dogs killed an opossum in the yard. I had let them out when I woke around 4, into the dark of the new moon, and knew something was up when I called them an hour later and one of them wouldn’t eat and the other wouldn’t even come. I only discovered the carcass when I stepped on it in the dark, with sandaled feet. They had left it right in the middle of the driveway. The opossums usually enter from the street, like the cats who come to steal the wild birds. The foxes, armadillos and snakes are the ones who sneak in from the forest behind the factories.
A Memorandum from the Department of Dead Animal Collection
A Memorandum from the Department of Dead…
A Memorandum from the Department of Dead Animal Collection
Saturday morning the dogs killed an opossum in the yard. I had let them out when I woke around 4, into the dark of the new moon, and knew something was up when I called them an hour later and one of them wouldn’t eat and the other wouldn’t even come. I only discovered the carcass when I stepped on it in the dark, with sandaled feet. They had left it right in the middle of the driveway. The opossums usually enter from the street, like the cats who come to steal the wild birds. The foxes, armadillos and snakes are the ones who sneak in from the forest behind the factories.