"Charlotte do you hear that? It is
absolutely terrible! Terrible noise! Where is it coming from Charlotte?"
Harold struggled onto his feet draining
every bit of energy he had. The nearly blind old man was rocking his
favored couch chair on the front porch when he heard the noise. A ripping sound
of what sounded like a chainsaw. Lurching from his rocking languor he shuffled
toward the noise. Shifting through the dusty wooden floor Mr Lamptey made his
way to the kitchen. The blind man knew every panel of his oak wooden floor.
The sound was god-awful. The ripping
noise reverberated on the hollow walls of the creaking house and Mr Lamptey
strained his eyes to see what was going on. In the kitchen he saw what he
thought was the shape of a muscly man drawing the pull of a chainsaw. On the
floor was a butchered mass.
"Charlotte! Whose your friend? Whats
he doin with that thing in my kitchen. When you get up please clean your mess
and get me my moringa."
Mr
Lamptey shuffled on the spot and made his way back to his rocking chair. The
ripping noise had stopped. Setting himself down on the chair he gazed at the
scenery before him. A shifting collage of green swirls dancing on the dry uncut
grass of his front lawn. It made no sense to Mr Lamptey what he was looking at,
but he thought “thank god the noise has stopped!”
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