When he was a boy he found a baby opposum
lying on the ground by a dug out nest in the sunshine
he took it home full of excitement to his mother
she told him to throw it in the garbage
he stole upstairs with it
wrapped it in a small piece of lace
and put it in a little willow basket
a risky thing crossing his mother
the opposum had died by the morning
when his mother saw that he had crossed her
she tied the dead opposum around his neck
and smashed his toy sailboat
He was thinking of this as he drove away in the cadillac
with Daisy in the trunk