Car Alarms

 

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As I am sleeping soundly in the stillness of the night,
a car alarm goes off so loud that all my wits take flight.
The shrill, insistent warble of this automotive tune
makes me want to tear my hair and go bay at the moon.
No thief is lurking anywhere attempting to hijack
a Ford or Lexus or Hyundai or even Cadillac;
no, a squirrel or bunny has bumped into someone's car,
and so the damn alarm goes off, annoying near and far.
With my temples throbbing I await the owner's pleasure --
heaping down around his head strong curses without measure.
Why so many car alarms are in my neighborhood
is a mystery which I have never understood;
in my neighborhood the cars are uniformly crummy.
Anyone who'd steal such junk must really be a dummy!

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