Burned Out
Man vs. neighbor. Man vs. car. Man vs. thief. Man vs. fire.
Cover Story
Nothing could protect Herbert “Tony” Copeland from the taunts. He could hear them as he tended his back yard. He could hear them as he entertained guests on his stoop. He could hear them as he drove through his block on Gault Place NE.
Play-ah! Play-ah!
His neighborhood was quiet and empty-seeming, in a perpetual overcast. If the houses weren’t run-down, they were abandoned. And the noise, especially human noise, traveled light. People heard your business. It was such that Copeland had no escape from the porch poetry of his next-door neighbor Sylvester “Wiggles” Monroe.
Play-ah from the Himalayas!
Morning, noon, night. Didn’t matter. Wiggles, then 32, would be there sitting on the concrete slab that made up his stoop, waiting. He had come home recently, on June 19, 2001, from prison, after serving nine-and-a-half years on an assault conviction. He claimed reformation, realizing that the only thing he could do while on parole was be loud.
Play-ah!
It was once original; no longer. Copeland was broad and built like a boulder, a single parent trying to raise his two young kids. He had found his dream home. He owned an antique shop. But he had never lived in one place for too long. Wiggles’ taunts were beginning to wear on him.... Continued 
Issue of Feb. 6 - 12, 2004
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