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    My neighbor built high walls around his house and property to keep others out, as thieves could enter and steal things if not protected. While the walls keep unwanted intruders away, the narrator's curiosity leads them to peek inside their neighbor's property through the tall gate guarding the entrance, allowing them to observe how the flower beds are watered and roses bloom and fall. The neighbor's daughter also longingly looks beyond the gate at the narrator's boys playing.

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    My neighbor built high walls around his house and property to keep others out, as thieves could enter and steal things if not protected. While the walls keep unwanted intruders away, the narrator's curiosity leads them to peek inside their neighbor's property through the tall gate guarding the entrance, allowing them to observe how the flower beds are watered and roses bloom and fall. The neighbor's daughter also longingly looks beyond the gate at the narrator's boys playing.

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    My Neighbor

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    Kukishin Krim
    My neighbor built high walls around his house and property to keep others out, as thieves could enter and steal things if not protected. While the walls keep unwanted intruders away, the narrator's curiosity leads them to peek inside their neighbor's property through the tall gate guarding the entrance, allowing them to observe how the flower beds are watered and roses bloom and fall. The neighbor's daughter also longingly looks beyond the gate at the narrator's boys playing.

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    My Neighbor

    My neighbor, being well- to-do


    Bought years a go a lot and house
    And built high walls as if to say
    “All interlopers here, keep out”

    It’s true thieves jimmy doors and snitch


    What usable lie strewn about
    So it is right my neighbor blocks
    Suspect intrusion to his house

    Now all the urchins shy, the cold tall gate


    That guards the ripe fruit from their slings
    Still I can’t keep my curiosity
    To trespass slyly with a peek
    So know how each lush flower- bed
    Is sprayed by hoses in the sun
    And guess when roses scent the air
    Or drop their petals on the ground

    I know too that my neighbor’s girl


    Who strains beneath her yaya’s hand
    Looks longingly beyond the gate
    Where my boys tumble in the sun.

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