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O! How does it feel,
Oh neighbors of mine,
To waken from slumber divine,
And feel as if you were waken from steal wailing on steal?
To wake, blurred vision from your doze, forty winks, siesta, and beauty sleep
By the crying babe of mine.
And you can do nothing but ponder in the deep,
Dark night and ask, “Where the hell is that noise coming from?”
It’s from a teething tot,
An aching little girl.
Whose mouth lacks the comfort
That we all have, because hers dos make her shrill.
Welcome to the neighborhood my collegial friends,
Oh yes! I do mind your underage, drunken parties,
Loud muffler, romps and rants and Play station games, nightly, relentless.
Oh yes! It was I who called the landlord the other night to end your soirees.
How does it set,
To be disturbed while you slept,
And be at the losing end of the neighborly apartment pact?
You ask how I feel about your time lost?
Sarcastically… egregious.
But now she’s sleeping just wonderfully, thank you for asking–
No thanks to you, your phony kindness,
Or the pounding on the wall at three in the morning.
Goodnight,
Sweet dreams,
Oh neighbors of mine!
Oh neighbors of mine,
To waken from slumber divine,
And feel as if you were waken from steal wailing on steal?
To wake, blurred vision from your doze, forty winks, siesta, and beauty sleep
By the crying babe of mine.
And you can do nothing but ponder in the deep,
Dark night and ask, “Where the hell is that noise coming from?”
It’s from a teething tot,
An aching little girl.
Whose mouth lacks the comfort
That we all have, because hers dos make her shrill.
Welcome to the neighborhood my collegial friends,
Oh yes! I do mind your underage, drunken parties,
Loud muffler, romps and rants and Play station games, nightly, relentless.
Oh yes! It was I who called the landlord the other night to end your soirees.
How does it set,
To be disturbed while you slept,
And be at the losing end of the neighborly apartment pact?
You ask how I feel about your time lost?
Sarcastically… egregious.
But now she’s sleeping just wonderfully, thank you for asking–
No thanks to you, your phony kindness,
Or the pounding on the wall at three in the morning.
Goodnight,
Sweet dreams,
Oh neighbors of mine!
2 comments:
Sounds like you are having a rough time with something you shouldn't be going through, esp. with a baby to care for. I'm going through some crap of my own and wrote a poem about it. I'm still having trouble getting people to read all my blogs. I've gotten a lot of them posted, most of them poems, and I've told people, but no one is visiting. What should I do?
Brittany,
I read your blog this morning. Here's the thing about blogging, at least for me: I do it for myself. If others read what I have to say and like it, great. If they don't...that's fine, too. Of course, I want people to read my blog– I think I have something important to say– but if they do not, so what. I'm writing, primarily, for two reasons: First, I need an outlet to express myself; my mind is always racing with ideas and the blog allows me an excuse to put my feelings down "on paper." Second, maybe, just maybe what I have to say will do someone some good. I have two people in mind when I write: my wife and my brother. By editing my articles my wife and I get to have those conversations we once had before Taylor. By reading my thoughts on "paper" we are able to skip through so much of the small talk, which is now taken up by childcare concerns. My brother and his wife are expecting their first in February. I know his wife has been reading my blog. And, according to her, my brother has been reading them too. If just one of my postings can save them a headache or two....
As of just a few seconds ago, I've only had 91 people look at my blog since November 9th. I figure about 1/3 of those hits are from me, alone. The real test will come in a few weeks: will the hits on my blog increase at the same rate as they have or will the number of hits decrease? But then again, I'm writing for only three people: myself, my wife, and my brother.
One thing you can do to advertise your blog is to put it in your signature when you send an email (like I have done). Then, every time you send out an email it'll inform or remind people of your site. I've also run across a reluctance some people have to use the internet for anything more than for email. They just don't understand what a blog is (heck, now I just tell people to look at my website, I'm tired of trying to explain what a blog actually is).
Bottom line, just keep writing.
Eric
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