Possum

O, you big fat possum!
O, you big fat possum!

The moon is rising fat and amber in the evening, the cats are on their last patrol, the skunk drops by for its breakfast, and — Holy God! That’s a big possum! He even looks like he’s about to make some pithy, home-grown observation, like “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”

Is there no end to the nightly critter parade?