At the end of the poem, when the father did not wake up, the speaker, for a split moment, come to realize a strong sense of loss. Especially if he is the Alpha rooster. Roosters Playing Possum By Billy Roper One would think that any self-respecting rooster would defend his flock. If only you'd wake up from your constant possum playing If only you'd wake up I'm begging you sugar, have some leniency Call the president and ask him baby To pardon me and bring you back to me Amend this broken If only you'd quite this nonsense of your possum playing If only you'd wake up, wake up baby, wake up … It is the way opossums protect themselves from danger. Especially if he likes to obnoxiously crow and wake us up an hour before dawn, every day, right outside our window. “Playing Dead” started out as having a sense of humor with the father playing dead with his children. Come back from the dead You left my, my heart here Say what you will and won't forget. There is not much chance that your dog wasn't bitten or scratched, so get him off to the vet for a check up tomorrow. May 4, 2017 Wake Up Call. This was not the first time this had happened. I'd keep the dog away from the possum till it either leaves or someone comes to collect it. Step down to my heart and mend this broken If only you'd wake up from your constant possum playing If only you'd wake up The problem was not that the possum was going to kill the chickens. A while back I featured them in my Weekly Creature Feature and learned a lot of amazing thing about them…. I didn't do a lot of testing of this hypothesis, but apparently they go into that state and stay there a little while regardless of what you do. If you want to learn, check out my 10 Things You didn’t know about opossums post. Express disappointment Speak your regrets, yeah Or baby call out my name I'll be where you are, I'll be very still. This morning in the dark, my dog delivered to me a full grow possum that was playing dead. “Playing Dead” begins with a fun game between the father and his children. Rather than run or attack, they curl up in a ball and pretend they are dead. Playing Possum. It was around the fifth time in about as many weeks that a possum had gotten into the coop. No, not so much. Or how long the babies stay with Mom in the pouch? like do you know how big they are when they are born? If it's attacked by a predator, sometimes it completely passes out, and appears dead. It is the instinct of many predatory animals to shake and kill a critter that is moving or fighting back, but they often leave dead animals alone. Come back, from the dead You left my, my heart here Say what you will and won't forget Express disappointment, speak your regrets, yeah Oh baby call out my name, I'll be where you are I'll be very still, step down to my heart Amend this broken If only you'd wake up from your constant possum playing If only you'd wake up

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