Comic Poem 200 Never Alone

Family of foxes cavorting in my back garden, Hatch End, Pinner, NW London, England, UK. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. 

 You can live alone

In a mobile home

You can follow the crowd

And laugh in loud

At those stuck in a coach

Or at home with a roach

You can't escape lies

Like you can't escape flies

Life can be good

In ebullient mood

As you drive through the woods

And steal your own food

You are never alone

In a static home

You can eat and grow fat

Within sight of a rat

Where the bees like to tease

And you wonder why

Spiders don't catch more flies.

And termites don't die.

That fox in my garden

Has two, big, staring eyes

I felt someone was watching

Now I know why.

They're there - and I'm here

Safe but stuck in my home!

I am technically all alone

Yet surrounded by eyes, never alone.

-ends-

Copyright Angela Lansbury 2023 22 July. 

My draft of this poem had laugh out loud as the ending to the first verse. I though that was a cliche, too predictable and commonplace. then I changed it to laugh in loud.