6/2/08 Growing Community

I'm thinking about the cat trap lady
who pretends to be my friend
and then collects cat gossip about me

and then relays it back to me in a sort of
for your own good, conspiratorial,
fake helping, self-important way.

I'm down at the garden thinking about
how god damn hard it is to build community
with tomatoes and birdbaths and one hose.

It makes me want to move far away
to some other make believe neighborhood
where people are kind and warm and
where there is never any sneering.