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Thru An Opened Bedroom Albeit Screened Window

Thru an opened bedroom (albeit screened) window... Accessible twenty four hours a day seven days a week, fifty two weeks a year. Spring 2022 Curtain call at Highland Manor Apartments unit b44 framing Mother Nature nook ever changing scene unfolds analogous to storybook. I espy (hear and see) while sitting at table housing Macbook Pro plethora of wildlife on a band dinned patch of woodland, yet slated to resemble cookie cutter vinyl city that sprout like mushrooms and/or toadstools. Yours truly bares witness to fauna (most likely oblivious to encroaching urbanization most often becoming endangered and/or extinct creature if lucky enough becoming cherished, loved, valued property of zoo keeper), who rarely encounter *****sapiens while innocuously and innocently buzzfeeding, kickstarting pinteresting linkedin with rites of Spring fawning, matchmaking, twittering regarding instinctual self survival tactics. At a safe distance removed our perch (chance) analogous to one way mirror, whereby yours truly and the missus watch the nature channel live never tiring at random antics exhibited by aural and visual courtesy spontaneous unrehearsed Animal planet productions. While astutely, fascinatingly, keenly, quietly observing semi, quasi, pseudo... wild kingdom flashback in space/time continuum occurred. I observed banned band of untamed ruffians and outlaws use wildland as hideout from y'all sip pose zid smart alecks who would be surprised country bumpkin like me can rattle off... courtesy nasal twang (or because of) Schwenksville drawl which can pose difficulty understanding attributed nysc with submucous cleft palate, hence droning voice of mine in tandem with puny size found yours truly scapegoat bullies taunted and teased I felt analogous being just another brick in the wall until sharecropper mama and papa Joad headed west Okie dokie with truant steering da wheel driving off into sunset via UHaul passing zee monotony doodling Yankee went hoo(t)'n and hollerin across this country tis of thee imitating moost every doggone animal earn'n chump change telling tales tall like dis here mumbo jumbo his birthplace home to countless life forms large and small some skitter, slither, scamper, jump, hustle, hop, fly, crawl and we even encountered mighty big beef eating fellas who beat up punks getting in barroom brawl adieu from folk's with simple minds, cuz nuttin else to write dat's awl!

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Date: 5/1/2022 5:09:00 PM
Enjoyed .The thing that blows my mind is that in a world slowly but surely imploding on it's narcissistic moorings there are still people who want to connect one *****Sapien to another.Thanks for sharing yours and the wife's observance.
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