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."