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Scheduling the Execution of a Friend
Oh, yes, that oak is a friend, a fine old friend Happy companion of lazy summer days When I sat in its shade and drowsed over a book Gently fanned by the leaves in those dreaming hours
Home to the mourning doves and angry jays Preening cardinals and shy chickadees Flying squirrels by night and grey squirrels by day Armadillos, opossums, and raccoons
But dying now upon its grassy lawn - The tree service will come for it at dawn