WORST BEDTIME STORY EVER

If he’s truly gone

He fell from a tree

Night-vision just finally darkened black

That might happen, if it’s true,

When he would move forward to a new branch

.

I found an opossum on my lawn

& if he’s truly gone

His odd defense

Odd Lazarus gifts

Of cessation, resurrection.

Odd mask of death did drop?

We’d ask if his time was up.

Give him a kick

“Wake up”