New owner of the ranch house on the corner

Started building a fence yesterday morning

After spending last six months he's been there

Clearing trees and bushes - making quite bare



The front of property to all those who pass on by

In a way, prettier, but really, not that way inclined

And now - fence chosen, has stakes twelve feet high

To keep in the kids and all the cats, so they don't die



A hazard of living on a seemingly busy country corner

As frantic stressed-out mothers fly around it scorning

The slow speed limit of twenty-five - as it's posted ...

Disregarding it in their haste to get kids school-hosted



And so the fellow on corner has had to take this step

Installing a really high fence which is so overswept

Expressing concerns about road and all of the sand

Kids put in pockets to drag in wherever they stand



A mixed objective - but one deemed quite necessary

For the lives of the children and the pets are primary

And all because of impatient people in such a big rush

Who are so inconsiderate of others, causing this hush ...



- Tristram



(c) Christopher W. Thomas

8:30am Monday April 20th, 1998