These Next Doors

Don't belabor your
neighbor, labor for
your neighbor. Give
hands and one day
your demands will
become polite. As
a crayon, let your
fuchsia become dull
and instead lull your
green back to the edge
of the sidewalk. Talk,
and become talk. You
will become ilk. And
all this becoming 
must become a 
run on the banks
of this currently
overdry river.