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Roosters bring to mind a quaint farm and picturesque sunrises – then the rooster’s morning crow – followed by coffee and flapjacks. This is the idealized Hollywood version.<\/p>\n

Fact:<\/strong> Roosters crow whenever they damn well feel like it. This activity isn’t limited to dawn.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen a lot of chickens in China. Their presence isn’t limited to farms. The rutted waste land between the road and a nearby line of industrial shops is home to a menagerie of poultry, scraping and pecking as the traffic streams by. Meat is expensive, people raise their own where they can.<\/p>\n

You would think that roosters would be off-limits in a gated community. Not so. Somewhere, on the dark recesses of a balcony owned by a probable sadist, lives a rooster. Five windows of my domicile face said rooster. The above fact is the truth, Mr. Rooster crows any time he damn well pleases.<\/p>\n

Quaint, I thought at first. Campy. A rooster in a gated community: What a novel way to start the day. That quickly faded. My days are now inter-spaced by the insane callings of a love-sick cock.<\/p>\n

\"Rooster<\/a>
Rooster Radar is what I need.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I make coffee in the morning.<\/p>\n

Cock-a-doodle-do.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lunchtime, trying to eat and read.<\/p>\n

Cock-a-doodle-do.<\/em><\/p>\n

On my cellphone, on the balcony, watching the sunset.<\/p>\n

Cock-a-doodle-do.<\/em><\/p>\n

If I wasn’t so lazy I’d try to locate the rooster’s roost. Some military contractor must have invented rooster radar: That would aid in my search. When I discover Mr. Noisypants’ lair I’ll liberate him and give him a new home.<\/p>\n

In my belly.<\/p>\n

My ears and nerves will be happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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