The boyfriend upstairs
Laughs like Woody Woodpecker
At 100 decibels
All hours of the day
Like a rapacious quest,
Like an imperial attack
On North Vietnam
Rendered for arbitrary victory.
.
Well now the girl has “kicked him out”
After he totaled her car,
To then regain him on Memorial Day weekend,
Finding him laughing a little slower and
Talking a little lower.
.
Sometimes you just gotta turn down the volume.