The Passive Aggressive Neighbours

1. It's been a decade now
2.  that we have lived at our address
3. And mostly we're contented here.
4.  We're happy, more or less.
5. But something that does bother us,
6.  and something we regret
7. Our neighbour's been a nuisance
8.  since the day that we first met.
   
   
9. He always passes comment
10.  when I need to cut my grass
11. Or points out when my bins
12.  are mixing plastic, card or glass.
13. Or if I'm having visitors
14.  who need to park on-street
15. He always makes them move their cars
16.  by just a few more feet.
    
    
17. Complains my milkman's noisy,
18.  or my gutter's needing cleared,
19. Puts trimmings in my garden
20.  from our hedge that he's just sheared,
21. Or Post-Its on my windscreen
22.  with some wisdom to dispense,
23. Or letters to the council
24.  to complain about my fence.
    
    
25. His petty wee aggressions
26.  I no longer can ignore,
27. So when he next goes out
28.  I'm creeping round to his front door.
29. I'm shouting through his letterbox
30.  to get back at the prat:
31. "ALEXA, SET REMINDER:
32.  3AM, TO WALK THE CAT!"
    
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by Albert Semple
32 lines over 4 stanzas.