Imagine the stymied dismay on the face of that black man as i answered my front opened srtorm glass door at his knock, knock rappin'... <br />Wuz that tall skinny blackman casin' my door? <br /> <br />Wuz he mappin? ... <br />Wuz he poor? <br /> <br />He wore a red button down short sleeved shirt of red... <br />With black colored asianic in design. <br /> <br />He had no afro pick supported or sprouting from his young well trimmed close head... <br />If he'd got caught-He'd surely be shot, real, real solidly dead. <br /> <br />He said to me that he must have the wrong address... <br />If he'd tried to enter into my doorway i'd make him a real hurt and well defeated broken up mess. <br /> <br />He wore beige khaki pants with tennis shoes of white.... <br />He'd been bitten by my long haired Dachschund hound, boy would it hurt, that well swollen reddened one bite. <br /> <br />He could not read house addresses numbers and that point is clear... <br />He should be working for the post office so that he could deliver mail oh so close but not as near. <br /> <br />The mail would be delivered off by a house or a block or two... <br />That black lad would have been recognized as illiterate and be mad and stew. <br /> <br />Would he have tried to enter my home if i did not answer the knock of his hand... <br />I'd most likely would have caught him in the act and then i'd have to kick his butt and to himself to apprehand. <br /> <br />He walked on down to the next house and got no answer even though there was a car in the driveway... <br />No one home? Not even on this fine hot sunny humid day. <br /> <br />I might have alerted the police by phone if i was not on line writing a poem... <br />That lad probably thought that no one was here, that no one was at home. <br /> <br />Had i spoiled his day that day? ... <br />Will he rob someone else's home and make them for being careless totally pay? <br /> <br />He walked away... <br />And here i live and home i stay.<br /><br />Michael Gale<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/was-he-a-home-breaker-into-er/
