Short Busybodies Poems

busybodies might help catch criminals
if they write down every type of car and license plate
parked on their block and the blocks around their blocks
it would be helpful too if they jotted down the drivers descriptions
they could then be elevated from arm chair detectives….
to real detectives.
I would be the first in line
if I had any neighbors
which I do not.
None close anyway...

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The bare bear barely bamboozled beleaguered befuddled bystanders.
They’re there for a reason, I chastised the bear. 
Hoping their backpacks did not have food.
For we all know that this would be an overwhelming lure for a bear.
Especially a bare bear who briefly blows up butterfly balloons for busybodies.
I hope this is not too much information but I wanted you to be aware
Because there is not any more room...

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I want to be a hermit,
Live a life without permits;
No whiny pompous fools, 
No busybodies spouting rules,
No evening nightly news
Telling me the proper views
By which I should live.

I long to be a hermit,
I don't need anyone to confirm it.
A life alone need not be solitary
With faeries in the boxberry
And forest friends to visit,
While Pixies in white-flowered privets
Entertain me with mischievous fun....

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