Saturday, May 5, 2007

Lament of a Flooded Bedroom

We share a wall, the laundry room and I
Generally, he's the noisy sort of neighbor
But we manage to live side by side.
Then one day, his cup runneth over.
With a fan and some towels it took me 5 days to dry.
Next time, it was the pipe for the sprinkler
And it took me 10 hours to notice this time.
A spot on the carpet, a shade of brown deeper.
Now in the corner abandoned, as if I wanted to hide
And they've set up camp in the living room, which is higher.

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