I was supposed to be a guard at this place
where the sprinklers were always shooting water
that blasted the facility's fences and their sensors
and triggered the alarms in the control room
BUZZZZZZZZ
BUZZZZZZZZZZ
Every time the sprinklers traversed
across the sensitive fence line
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
The horrible sound continually erupted
and I had to clear the incident
by clicking on a monitor
or the sound would just go on
without any acknowledgement
and I would risk being found in dereliction of my duties
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
This would go on for hours, and hours, and hours
with the sound of the alarms going off
every few seconds or so
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
as my nerves would wear down until they were completely shot
and no matter how many times the sound came back repeating
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
it was no longer alarming
and nothing else could be alarming either
Great armies could have invaded
Monsters could have been unleashed
The Armageddon could have begun right then and there
but all I would have cared about or been responsible for
was the silencing of the incessant sounds of the alarms going off
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
In fact if anything collided with the fences
other than the aquatic-blasts that mechanically watered down the lawn and my senses
I could only hope that if something damaged or stole anything
that it would include the damned alarms with it
so I could be availed of the constant
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
and maybe even live without the constant futility of all these senseless alarms
But having left this place and all its futile alarms
I still can't escape so many other similar and equally senseless buzzings
I don't know why the lawns of the world can't be left to grow on their own
or why the alarms have to be sounded every time something moves against a sensor
And I may never know why it all has to be or cause such senselessness
I just try to clear the sounds when I hear them, and stay as clear of them as I can
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