Camouflaged atop a huge mahogany,
Cowering Simian peers at intrusive
Messrs Potbelly, Foodlove plus Twolegged Voter,
tactics tsars – cum – lumberjacks
parleying dense undergrowth diplomacy.
Come nightfall,
egocentrism regurgitates.
A senseless drilling grinding drone,
A stubborn sawing ghostly whine
Reverberating vampiric metallic wheeze
and finally
A mammoth thunderous smashing scraunch.
Now, there lies killed in his prime
the erstwhile sylvan canopy giant.
Dream greedy Potbelly: What an immense till!
Salivates gleeful Foodlove: What a juicy kill!
Testifies Twolegged Voter:
There had been a bloodbath here
But for sawdust and dew veneer.
Read – Ding-Dong Ditch – A Poem by Bernadette Chikapa, Malawi
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