Around the block

How’d yall like to have a neighbor?

That hangs her laundry on the fence.

If I had my way that kind of thing

Would be a shootable offence.

How’d you like to have a neighbor?

That raids the hood trash bins for cans

When I see her I do not go outside,

She has a habit of shaking hands.

How’d you like to have a neighbor?

Whose car leaks dirty oil

And instead of an antennae,

His car wears aluminum foil.

How’d you like to have a neighbor?

Who police often visit his house,

And is known by even outlaws

As a sexual predatory louse.

How’d you like to have a neighbor?

With a pair of insane dogs,

That bark and yelp and whine all night

And are about the size

Of adult wild bull frogs.

Now there are some tolerable people

Up and down the street,

But, since we don’t venture out much,

We very seldom meet.

I’ll never give none of my neighbors

My Triond address

They’d probably

Tar and feather me

If they ever read this mess.