Lock your doors

These newbies are weird

They approach

with no fear

and with a pie

Who does that?

Lock your windows

Neighbors just chat

at the mailboxes

with no real information

Just to talk

Who does that?

I locked my doors

I locked my windows

But as I cower in the corner

of my room, staring

at the window

I hear a knocking

At the door first

Then on the glass

A small tap

I see a hand

It’s them

I know it

A sigh of relief

for the locks

But the hand is pressed

flush against the window

until it goes through

like the glass wasn’t there

Coming right for me

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(I had a nightmare of a hand going through the glass of my window recently. Like full on phased through like a superhero…or I guess a scary villain. It was terrifying.)