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ITS TYRANNY!

opened wide french windows

brilliant and bright sunshine

flowers on long green stalks

the neighbor parks a sons car in the driveway
then sets a portable radio on a peeling of paint
wooden ledge and tunes into a talkback
radio station at loud volume

"....IT IS TYRANNY !....A STATE OF TYRANNY
ENGULFS THE FREE WILLED INDIVIDUAL !!
....IT IS TYRANNY I SAY !!! "

relocation to a rear quiet and forested garden
with a copy of nathanial hawthorne is disturbed
by the clanking of a gate the stomping on steps
the noisy opening of a ladder and the booming voice
from a talkback am station at even louder volume

"....IT IS TYRANNY !!....THE RESPONSIBLE MAN
THE UPRIGHT CITIZEN THE GOD FEARING
FELLOW ARE TODAY UNDER A DIRECT
AND FRONTAL ASSUALT BY TRANNICAL AND
CRUEL FORCES !!! ....IT IS TYRANNY I SAY !!!! "

a later knock on the front door presents the neighbor
offering a shopping bag of just picked from the tree
avocados and oranges and a smiling request
to give mum kisses and hugs and have a nice day
after which he returns to washing the car of his son
and the booming voice on a radio talkback station

"....IT IS TYRANNY !!....IT IS TYRANNY I SAY !!! "