Passive Messaging

Jerry Reynolds

 

Luxury senior apartment renting,
presents occasions for gamesmanship.
Tacky moves are un-relenting
in parking, Olympic, brinkmanship.
Each suite has garages and drives
suitable for your autos to store.
Tacky Bob, in a passive strive
to get freelance Jon his truck to moor,
anywhere else but here,
a cunning plan, to coerce, he has devised
for Jon to park where Bob feels less severe.
The use of both his cars this scheme requires
to block the spots he doesn’t wish Jon in charge.
If you have done the math you are concluding.
Bob now can’t use his driveway or garage.
Passive messaging can be eluding
Freelance Jon just parks his truck
in any spot handy to pluck.

  • Author: Jerry Reynolds (Offline Offline)
  • Published: July 7th, 2021 06:12
  • Category: Sad
  • Views: 51
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Comments7

  • Fay Slimm.

    Ha he had the wheels slashed yet - - even the luxury flat dwellers can get snap-happy when they cant get cars out...... hope there maybe a sequel to this little tale - eh Jerry ?

    • Jerry Reynolds

      Thanks, Fay.
      It's ongoing, there is material there for sure.

    • Neville


      aint it amazing wot we can achieve/manipulate with nowt but words, a spanner, wrench and flat bed ...

      • Jerry Reynolds

        Thanks, Neville.
        Once a neighbor pursued a course with conviction
        The landlord responded with a notice of eviction.

      • Trenz Pruca

        More poems of luxury senior apartment life please.

        • Jerry Reynolds

          Thanks, T.P.
          There sure is enough material.

        • SureshG

          Amazing how you have taken an issue of tension and transformed it into a poetic read

        • rrodriguez

          The parking situation generated a first rate poem to enjoy.

        • Goldfinch60

          Some will just not allow others into there lives no matter how minimal it may be.

          Andy

          • Jerry Reynolds

            Thanks, Andy.
            So true, and cut off their noses
            to spite their faces to prove it.

          • L. B. Mek

            yup, those passive aggressive actions
            'some' people - just delight, in playing-out
            only, that thick layer of self-denial
            ends-up, a regrettable legacy of their self-thwarting
            and pitifully pathetic: way of life..
            a great depiction Jerry
            this words not only highlight, the root core
            of those unsavoury traits in people, we come across
            so regularly in our everyday,
            but by your depth of insight, we get to view it
            from the aggressor's perspective
            and kinda, get a feel for how they justify
            their actions;
            such a brilliantly weaved, didactive write
            thoroughly enjoyed the read!

            • Jerry Reynolds

              Thanks, L.B.
              History has taught us- people can make a convincing-sounding case for anything.



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