neighbour magpie he's a nice guy a good neighbour and he's been a great help at times he can be very generous i just wish he wasn't so critical always cutting me up making out like i'm the farmer failure the dopey pretender pretending to garden my corn was ripe before his last year! and i was still picking when his was long gone so why does he have to say things to me and about me behind my back i know i'm just as guilty by writing this in blather but at least i don't think he's a loser at least i don't tell him not to garden it's not a fucking competition already! i don't care if i'm late! i'll eat the bloody weeds! i hate being pressured he just doesn't get it i grow for pleasure to put food on the table it's everyone's earth but it's my stinkin' garden not his to command i don't care for his bleedin' lectures i've tried to tell him but still he persists pointing out every single blade of grass cutting me up saying i do nothing telling me what i am making me cry laughing at me 040604 ... magpie at least he likes my pies 040604 ... magpie he said i should work at the bakery 040604 ... magpie i told him no. i don't want to. 040604 ... magpie he misunderstands my pies just like he misunderstands my garden. and he complains, but still eats my corn when offered. 040604 ... magpie and i complain, but still ask if i can borrow his tractor. really i don't know what my problem is. 040605 ... Fido My neighbour and I exchange thoughts on cigars and the circus on Tuesdays. He brings avocados from his tree and I bring some beer. We don't eat them at the same time because I never bring brew that goes with avocados. And he's very picky about his avocados. I'm really thankful to get them. 040922 ... raze sometimes she plays her drums at night so loud the whole block can hear her. sometimes her girlfriend blasts music with the window open in the middle of the day. sometimes i wish i lived on an acre of land in the middle of nowhere. 170928 ... nr my 70ish-year-old former next door neighbour was quiet, considerate, and kind. after we'd gotten to know each other for a bit, he told me over email to let him know if i wanted to go for a coffee in the area sometime. i never did go, and still am confused as to the intentions. right before he moved out, he told me i had maybe been the quintessential girl next door. these comments were strange, and coming from a person as seemingly harmless as him, even stranger. 211015 ... kerry augustus lives across the street. he has long hair and a gentle face and right after we moved in i thought a few times about asking if he wanted to come over and have a pizza, listen to some records, but i never did, and after a while it just felt like the window had closed. he used to sit on his stoop all the time, sometimes with a girl i would see coming home late afternoon often in plaid pants, like some i had in high school. there was a constellation of cigarette butts on the sidewalk in front of their house. that was the only thing that annoyed me about augustus. but i think he must have quit, or he doesn't stoop-sit anymore. and now i spend more time on my stoop. a missed neighborly connection. i try not to spy on my neighbors, i'm not like tina or rosie, but last night the blinds were open and seinfeld was on the screen. i have seen him carry a cello inside but have never heard it sing. 211015 ... tender_square not only did my neighbours across the street meet when his heavy metal band opened for her heavy metal band, but i just found out the dude hunts deer...with a bow and arrow! 221003 what's it to you? who go blather from