What Ever Happened To Privacy? ….[neighbors Are Watching; Humor? ; Fantasy & Fact; Personal; Medium Length] Poem by Bri Edwards

Since moving to a drought-stricken area two years ago ….
I've used more conservation measures to lessen the flow …..of water through our pipes.
Using water twice before it goes "down the drain",
is one way to help make up for ……the scarcity of rain.

Here's another: At night I've been peeing off our deck.
My wife won't join me, but …..what the heck.

Till today, I'd always done it at night, in "the dark".
I've heard no human complaints, but some dogs DID bark.

Then, this afternoon something came over me.
I thought to myself: "It's a drought! Why don't I pee ….
off our deck ALL the time? "

So ……to our deck I then (proudly) sauntered out;
my wife said nothing, though on her face ….was a pout.

I stepped to the railing facing our large back yard,
unzipped, and stuck "it" out; "it" was long but not quite "hard".
A warm yellow cascade fell at least twelve feet down.
Then I tucked it away, my duty done. My wife did frown.

The barking stopped, but then I heard something NEW.
A voice, two houses away, called out: "Hey YOU!
It's bad enough that at night you make our dogs bark.
Why don't you pee behind bushes (like we do) ….till after it's dark? ! "

(October 17, 2015)