Did Thoreau say
Fences make good neighbors
Was he gay?
He borrowed a hammer from someone
To build that cabin down on Walden
Should have borrowed a pair
Of post whore diggers.
This ain't about Throw a roll of frankfurters down a hallway...
This is about the reality of my next door neighbors.
We had no partition between us in the old days
We just let it all hang out.
I used to go out in Summer
And lay on my chaise
In my short shorts
All greased and oiled and lubricated
To get my package of sun for the year.
If they were at home
Normally she the wife would come out
And throw up a line of clothes
Between my apartment
And their house.
A parent lee
The bitch thought a clothesline
Made good neighbors.
She must be reading that dead beat
Sylvia Plath.
I continued to sun all year
Until I saw the construction team come in
They dug here and they dug there
They dug right out of everything but their underwear
It was so hot
Shirts went flying
I saw the hairy muscles of everyman on the project
And I just laid there
Oiled and my tent pole just about ready to pop.
Well they got the Great Wall of China finally built.
I noticed a knothole of a modest size on my side
With some encouragement I got it to come loose
I got a spot with a view
But I see nothing that they ever do.
They did not build their fence to hide themselves
But built it to shut me out.
But I do not worry because now since I got the fucking privacy
I lay out in the nude...
But just in case
They got a space
To catch a look.
Author notes
This poem could have been worse
I could have caught him doing the poodle.
Written April 29th, 2006
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i have missed ya. Everyone has changed thier names..well alot of people did. Great write, I wanna see you bathe in the sun naked..hubba hubba hubba/
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Man..it's been far too long since I read your work. Sigh...
Superb.
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LOL. What a write. I found nothing but pure humour in this one. I have had nosey neighbors before, and if I could have... I too, would have put up a fence. They put up a fence, for an obvious reason... lol. You should keep your "tent pole" in less public places.. lol... like inside
Great write!! Thanks for sharing
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This made my day in a roundabout way, enjoyed it.
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excellent job
Maybe there was some freakie deakie going on in the dark of the old back yard, People are both straight and strange,LOL! I love this read, it was both heartfelt and true! Plus, no never knows do one???? Write ON!.....ennovy
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laughing at the author coments
but I must say I enjoyed the ending you chose 
Im not so sure if I should say thanks for the visual or not though 
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~Lena~
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A poetic revelation of desires and fires that are inflamed but not necesarily of the heart.The irony herein is their were invisible barriers twixt the two neighbours before the only thing erected was indeed the fence.Perhaps you revealed more than a frisson at the hot breath of the sun beating down on you?Am perplexed as to why the clothesline bothered you,surely everyone has to dry their laundry and clothes,like bodies,smell nicer au naturel.A thought provoking write dear Rebel Rebel.
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Super fun
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Hope he was'nt eyeing the glory hole you popped out ! I guess that 5.75 needs some attention, but neighbours make bad lovers. Always cumming back for more extention. Hot sweaty summery poem. wellcum. I mean well done!
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Yeah.
I guess they built the fence when they spotted their teen-ager eyeing me out of his bedroom window one day.
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