Hard These Days For a Crook

It’s hard these days for a crook. Go anywhere around and take a look. Ain’t no shops to rob of jewelry. They all closed up and got security. Not even restaurants for him to rob, and at the grocers’ Lordy - what a mob! It’s hard these days for a thief. I wonder how he’s finding his relief. Folks he used to rob out on the street are staying home or downtown packing heat! See a mugger; put him at unease. If ya got no gun, pretend to sneeze. What’s he gonna do? What’s he gonna do? That crook, that thief, that louse. He’s in a stew. Yeah, it’s hard these days for a crook. How’s he gonna get any fishes on his hook. Hard to burglarize both night AND day with kids now home and never gone away. Dad’s are even working from their houses - some with bullets ready for the louses! It’s hard these days for the thief. The grocery stores don’t even have ground beef. Cops now guard those stores, for heaven’s sake! How’s the robber gonna get a break? He best be wise and stay away from US! In case somebody out there has the virus. What’s he gonna do? What’s he gonna do? That crook, that thief, that louse. He’s in a stew. March 27, 2020 for Richard Lamoureux's A-Muse-Sing Poetry Contest I was thinking of that song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" and got the idea to be sarastic about crooks. So this was inspired by that song (though it does not use that song's rapping format at all), and by the title of Richard's contest. Just trying to keep things light. The guns at gun shops here are selling like hotcakes.