My four-score years and more do not
shield me from the officious little
commissars who plod through life
with the undiluted belief that
they hold the universe together
in their great unblemished wisdom
firmly knowing that rules are rules
and no one must be permitted to
ignore them and it be his self-appointed
duty to proudly inform the ignorant
of their perceived assault on limits
of the permissible. And so I as an
inveterate naturalist besotted with the
natural world and a lifelong student of
same lovingly at times transplanting
wildflowers to flourish in my garden
given a lesson on the legality of what
was presumed underway. While snapping
the shyly elusive head of a spring
wildflower chastened with the warning
it is illegal to pick such. Nor would I;
the presumptuous little twerp ignorant
of the legality of transplanting them to
camera or mayhap to the garden.
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