The Groundlings

Official (viz. certified DOA)

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The crow does not fly at midnight. Or at any other time, for that matter.

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Indecency in repose.

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We are in Mourning, Dove.

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Taking a Forever Nap

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Martha Perry Foster, squirrel-wife to Christopher and squirrel-daughter to Henry. Remarkably well preserved.

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I wish I had the attention to detail to notice background action. I have a hard enough time with foreground action...

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Level 1: The Parking Lot. Failed. Game Over.

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Looks like his mongoose is cooked. By a car. Messy.

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"Over the river and through the woods..." Well, in the woods -- didn't quite make it through. Probably for the best, though. Grandmother always dries out the turkey and her house smells like a test site for Pall Mall's potpourri ("Stale Tar" scent).

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You thought you were so hot with that exoskeleton shell, huh, Crab? Looks like you forgot the main lesson of life while caught up in your hubris: everything dies. I almost said "well, you've got another think coming," but you don't. Dead things don't think, friend-o.

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Cicadas? Not such good swimmers. Turns out.

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Although he no longer sounds like a duck, I suspect that looking like a *dead* duck is enough to certify him a duck. Well, formerly a duck. Now he's probably just food for worms. More probably, he was food for a fox and has already been pooped out. And everyone who's anyone knows that worms don't eat fox dookie.

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So: Flying Squirrel? Not so much, apparently. I told you so, Rocky. Should have thought twice about that. Good try though; you really committed. Ground Squirrel. Turns out.

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It’s not even as nice as the simple pine box befitting your simple nut hiding and seeking life, but this cardboard box will just have to do. Goodnight, Sweet Prince.

I ad deum.

#DeadSquirrelsOfTumblr

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Heart attack? Squirrels are easier to photograph when they're dead because they're not all moving around constantly. Nevertheless, I don't know that this should be called a still life.

PS. Non-bloody squirrel fur helps squirrels in full rigor slide easily across the concrete.

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Regicide: failed flight to Mexico. (I'm aware that it's not a Monarch butterfly....)