Who Is Your Neighbor
We had some neighbors with a sign, “Do Not Disturb.”
They’d vanished when a moving van came to the curb.
How thrilled we were to learn new folks were moving in.
Would they make that old house look neater than a pin?
Originality they did not lack!
They started painting everything, and everything was black!
We feared the value of our property would drop
next door to this atrocity. They would not stop!
We noticed many other things that seemed to us bizarre.
That pair would only paint by night and neither had a car!
The sign “Do Not Disturb” remains, so now we think about
the fact we’d never seen our former neighbors moving out!
Behind their house is where we saw them the first time.
We’d heard them digging in the night, but that is not a crime!
My spouse peeked out the window. Working fast, and with no sound,
that couple started planting bushes on a wide fresh mound.
It spooked us, and I pray they didn’t see our curtain lift
while spying. They’re at home all day. I think they work night shift!
Our house is now for sale; we stay indoors with our two cats.
Before each dawn, I swear I hear the sound of bloody bats!
Written 9/12/2015
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