Peek-a-Boo

I may be turning
into one of those geezers
I used to read about
peering through apt windows
weighing what is going
on outside --

and I find myself too
interested in who lives where
and what time they
return to the cave of
their abode

in different cars
with various colours
drivers shaved
or otherwise

and I mentally chalk up
parcels delivered
size of shopping bags
whose turn to drive children
to school this day.

When I was a child
cowboys
and natives gained my
attention---now it is the price
of
body movement
with limitations and pain
to behold. Yet eyes of interest
reign the day
in nosey conviction.

© Richard L. Provencher