First, I didn't know that the word for them was opossum. When you wrote it to Brian I thought it was a word game with possum and opposite. Then I see this video and i see their complex beauty. They are so rat looking but I don't feel the same as like rats. Anyway. I remember a short story for kids. It is this dad opossum and baby opossum and he is teaching to his son to pretend to be dead to defend himself of others but the baby can't stop laughing and he tells him and says: No te rías, Pepe! (Don't laugh, Pepe!) and that's the name of the story: “No te rías, Pepe!” Sometimes Brian and I repeat this phrase out of context: “No te rías, Pepe!” That's all.
by Guadalupe Galván
credits
from Won't Kiss Any Saint,
released January 31, 2024
Guadalupe Galván (lyrics)
Jerry Gordon (guitar, then voice)
Improviser and composer Lara Alarcón has created an experimental opus rife with moments of wildly free jazz and lovely melodic passages. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 28, 2021