they cut down the weightlifter

he hadnt been to the south end of town in a month  had hoped the parcel service would get its shit together and reestablish its ability to accept utility payments

                                                   they had not   hed have to stamp and mail it

doubling back up the towns main thoroughfare he went righttook a dirt hill ignored the new white concrete steps that were poured three months prior

                                  the dirtway took him up to a bank parking lotthe market around the corner

twothree steps up the loose dirt he pulled up short 

the weightlifter was gone

                          a mature tree he had affection forhad walked past for better than twenty years they gouged its stump out so he couldnt count it rings

weightlifter had dislodged the last concrete walksnapped its back biology bettering manmade the parking lot and stepsSCABS should have been laid giving the tree a wide berth one would be stupid not to know that at some point the tree would throw off its shackles its confinement

                                                     this was nothing short of a lynching how dare it defy the landlords

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