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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=531058" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Feel So Sub-prime</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My next-door neighbor is gone<br>Two small U-haul trucks<br>Were parked in their driveway<br>When I got home Friday</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The guy that owned the house<br>Before them<br>Was an ass<br>First thing he did</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When he and his wife <br>Moved in was to convert<br>Their two car garage to <br>A kick-boxing studio</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our garage faces the street<br>Their's faces our property<br>One day I got home from work<br>Walking up to my door</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I glanced to my left<br>It seemed as if someone else<br>Was walking too<br>At just about my pace</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then like Lucy and Harpo<br>If you remember that TV scene<br>From 'I Love...' we both<br>Stopped and stared at each other</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The entire back wall of his garage<br>Was a glass mirror<br>Like a ballet studio Glass! <br>Without the class</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His studio had been downtown<br>In a commercial building<br>I had read the magnetic signs<br>On the sides of his SUV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now his studio faced my front yard<br>Heavy bag hanging there<br>All the space was needed<br>Washer and dryer? ? ? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The had been hooked up <br>Outside for Christ's sake<br>Under a tacked-on lean-to<br>To keep the rain out</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This was only the start<br>Of a rocky relationship<br>Street parking was taken<br>By his clients 4 to 11 PM daily</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thursdays were better<br>That was youth night<br>Parents dropped them off<br>Picked them up</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But not the wrappings<br>Plastic botles aluminum cans<br>And all the other garbage<br>The left behind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Planning Board Zoning enforcement<br>Building Inspector Code enforcement<br>Public Safety Sanitation Department<br>All equally useless</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So when they sold the house<br>I was thrilled to say the least<br>No more cars and ski-boat tailers<br>Parked on his lawn</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I never noticed when<br>Our new neighbors<br>Moved in<br>They were very quiet</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never talked to or even saw him<br>Saw she and their child<br>Once or twice and waved<br>Then came the cars</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Five or six parked regularly<br>Didn't take me long to figure out<br>This new building code violation<br>The studio had become a dorm</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their sudden move out<br>After about two years<br>Was a foreclosure<br>I checked the county records</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The teaser rate non-verif' loan<br>Got them in got them out<br>Even with renters they couldn't<br>Cover the bump in rate + taxes insurnace</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It makes me feel sad<br>I never got to know them<br>To talk about plans to remove<br>My two large old maples</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That I knew dropped <br>As many leaves<br>On ther side <br>As it did ours</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have no control over <br>Negative amortization loans<br>Falling real estate values<br>I could have helped with the leaves</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Tom+J.+Mariani">Tom J. Mariani</a><div class=q>
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Two small U-haul trucks
Were parked in their driveway
When I got home Friday

The guy that owned the house
Before them
Was an ass
First thing he did

When he and his wife 
Moved in was to convert
Their two car garage ..."></div>
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