March15, 2006; The Chase

Story ID:	176
Written by:	Darrell Lindsey (bio, contact, other stories)
Story type:	Diary/Journal Entry
Location:	Nacogdoches Texas 75965
Year:	1964
Person:	mother

March 15,2006; The Chase

In today's Police Report section of The Daily

Sentinel, I found out about the fence-jumping

guy who police pursued through our backyard

into the woods last night. The report said

the man had chased a woman out of their residence,

pulled her hair, and hit her in the head with a

beer bottle. ( Seeing him emerge from a neighbor's

bush, I thought the four officers were after a

burglar. I yelled at him and told him to keep

moving-- trying to use my best pit bull voice.)

It's sure a sad, maddening world

sometimes; makes me identify with the lines

about the bird in Rabindranath Tagore's

poem,"A Stressful Time": "Where's that nest,

branch that offers shelter? Yet bird, o my bird,

already blind, don't fold your wings yet."