on this stretch of road he rarely
looked up out of his book
an easy decline a broad even
sidewalk hed walked more times than he could count over nearly ten years
something eerie bade him to
lookup
when baded or is that baited
he looked he wished he ignored himself
lookingup looking above the stark
pikes that made up a black metal fence that surrounded the junior high he saw that
the old trees that had been pruned their
limbs cut back they looked like dumb
fingers amputated fingers pointing at the sky
he thought
of all the athletes who pointed who
obviously believed that Gawd favoured them celebrated their home run touchdown goal winning their event
Man if he could have those fingers cut off hed
feel better about the trimmed trees
nobody wanted a tree to kill a child
nobody wanted a tree to frighten
a child
he wasnt nobody
younger trees to either side of the
elders were untouched
they had birds flitting in their
boughs
there wasnt one bird in any of
the seven amputated trees that ran before the concrete patio and walk before
the standalone school gymnasium
he wasnt nobody
he was harsher than most
but only because
accountability preferably to punish
wrongdoers who werentbeing punished must also endure lost innocents
must risk murderous trees someone must have heard the wicked plots mused among the trees
he supposed he ought to be happy
they only suffered amputation they could
have been cut down
when trees in this town were cut
down they were not replaced
when people are cut down several replace them
seemed imbalanced to him
seemed particular human
species always won out when considered against other earthlings and the
planet considering First People genocide black
people genocide get-on-the-wrong-side-of-white-people genocide
just an observation
try as he may
he looked he couldnt find the name of one person
murdered by a tree
names of people murdered by people
unknown people murdered
by people
Come on people take the cake
just an observation
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