Ich Bin Ein Berliner Poem by Douglas Scotney

A friend asked if I ever write poems
about leafblowers and their users.

Anyone whose neighbours have been reduced
by their behaviour

and who writes a poem
naming his neighbours
after their instruments of offence,
Gas Tankers, for example,

and after the expression of their instruments,
for example, The Thumpers,

and can only escape
to a place
where there's probably some other abuser,

is writing a poem about a leafblower,
and reducing to Blower its user.