Petty

25/10/2020 – Poem a Day Compilation



I found a note from you in the letterbox

        “Please tell you child not to be so messy

        And to pack up their toys when finished”

Considering it’s their yard, not yours,

I don’t think you have a right to be so petty.



The cops knocked on our door, yesterday,

        “We’ve had a complaint about the noise

        Of the leaf blower early on Sunday morning”

We don’t own a leaf blower, a mower or trimmer,

And the police apologised for the inconvenience.



Today, I asked if you’d poisoned one of our trees,

        “I do not do such things, I am not that petty, but

        I can’t say I’m sorry, its leaves went everywhere”

So it just confirmed in my mind that you did it,

Even though you wouldn’t admit it to my face.