Fred Aiken Writing

Tag: neighbors

July 29, 2024

all the same neighbors

i don't think our neighbors 
like me, but it's probably because 
i throw water balloons at their kids whenever
they walked through our backyard,

it's all harmless fun,
and their kids even seem to make a game
out of the whole rigmarole,
but i suppose it is cause
for concern,
all the same
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April 18, 2024

neighborly

my neighbor’s waved at me the other day,
but i felt embarrassed that it has been eight years of me living in this house
and never greeting, acknowledging, or even briefly nodding to any of my neighbors,
so at this point i just try to avoid even the slightest of glances,
but not because they’re horrible neighbors,
i assume that they’re not;
it’s mostly something going on with me, an internal struggle, 
preventing me from saying ‘hello neighbor’

October 15, 2023

dead flowers

my neighbor planted sunflowers
2 months ago, and they looked really pretty,
they might have even increased their property value,
if that sort of thing works,
but i guess my neighbors didn’t know how to take care of sunflowers,
because the flowers died,
and i didn’t know if it would be appropriate to send them flowers
in condolence for their deceased flos mortuus