Neighborhood rounds

Drinking the darkness
deliciously dim, we do our due diligence
Checking things that need checking
Finding things that need finding

Knowing the dark evergreen secrets
Really, are Nathan and Megan gone?
Did they move in the middle of the night?
Without paying rent? Or saying goodbye?

My top agent is Pinky
loyal and almost my best friend
She can smell and hear better
but still finds garbage cans to be threatening

We might make the neighbors suspicious
walking down alleys at night
But Pinky reassures
“this is bio break related.. don’t worry”

In this way we meet many people
with both two legs and four
we calm with wags and licks of love
truly, we are your neighbors

Rain or sleet or general gray miasma
We still walk our rounds
We know you and you know us
Making way round our tiny town