There Goes the Neighbourhood

Common complaints causes construction cautions Builders banging boulders Battling brash big mouths Next. Frightening fractured features free of foundation Opened and operated officially Neighbors napping lacking Sleep slowly rising dealing with DUSTY floors maybe must have Heaved a heavy mop DAY by day Or not. Having hungry man. Dinners and TV. For featured EXHAUSTION leads to Quizzical self: TV or not TV. NOW Builders were BANGING and boulders We're booming. Here comes HEAVEN Crashing down on MORNING. EARLY midnight storming. As some began their mourning And I was JOINING. What an unbearable noisy Nuisance. There goes the neighborhood Thunderous and numbing. Not ENOUGH sleep. I tried to weep. Thought maybe I'd cry myself To Sleep. Neighbors yelling, dogs Barking. I joined in. A pity. SINK OR. SWIM. THAT'S DEEP.