We live along the

shore of an

inland sea.

We live in a house

surrounded by grass

of that sea.

We have trees and

plants, birds, bugs

and bees.

What we don’t have

are machines that

belch in the breeze.

But, we who live

along the shore

of the sea,

find that tools of

suburbia make

us wheeze.

I’d like our neighbors

to desist and

cease

from use of polluting

machines that make

us sneeze.

But it’s too late;

so it wouldn’t work

even to say please.

I use my inhaler and

continue to wheeze.

Welcome to the inland

sea with a less than

pure breeze.