I had to keep back tears when I discovered that the plant which I had nourished over years first in a *** then in the tiny frontyard garden where it had after a while found its space amid the dominance of honeysuckle & the bougainvilleas had simply been cut off at the stem by the guy I had paid to clip the hedge
which he actually butchered to a degree that it looked like shrubs by the trenches of World War I devastated by artillery, grenades, and machine guns