I've had just enough time to... tear down a fence.
Taken in Maxwell Hill, Taiping.
Mending Wall
By Robert Frost
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Spring is the mischief in
me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make
good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no
cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or
walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is
that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down!"
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Sometimes I don't understand
Why a fence is in place where there is no need for one.
Strangely, you'll find there is no short of those who will come to its defence
Yet cannot explain why there is a need for it.
Who build the fences?
Why did they do it?
When I cannot find the reason,
I've a strong tendency to want to tear it down.