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Neighbor

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A dazzling day today, blessed by God,
Thy tower of house taints the foliage retch,
Oi, chompers, boxes so strenuously spawl’d,
The windows void of light, the ill-kept fence,
Perchance tis caution spins from sins so base,
Afeard I’m not to go investigate.

Marry! My claws mumble from slumber deep,
Yet the scene my suspicions it supports,
Those haphazard utensils it so seems,
A lock’d and boarded door the tools part.
What injustice the neighbour so strong guards?
Venture again, I must find what he hoards,
This leaf best be stow’d for future scrawling,
Ah me!—by and by—I best be going.

I’m writing, but this paper be not mine,
In a drawer, so slightly tattered, dry,
The morrow winks, the gulls call, I’m new here,
Whose pen and appellation is unclear,

I’ve scoured the sights, the larks crow, grasses sway,
But midst the back, patches of brown and grey,
Tis the tenant’s flaw or another’s fault,
Might the question lie in the neighbor’s call,

Your house vibrates with vigor and ardour,
With a racketing tram and stilt supports,
Why so much complexity and windows?
Yet no one blinked once as your mansion rose,

O’ Neighbor, what secret is there to hide?
Why slap a bear trap and bunt me from sight?
But I have your precious key and crowbar,
I’ll find it, else send my hearth my regards—

O’ Neighbor, O’ Neighbor, what are thoust pains?
I’ve had visions strange, of devilish deeds,
You may wish me dead, but I will harm not,
It’s only a wonder, to it I feed,

Perhaps we need this settling of tensions,
All of the sides can become equalized,
Without name I write, if I end the same fate,
And I hide it so our quest can go on.

What a strange dilemma I discovered!
A house so supreme, so splendidly tall
With windmill and annex and wooden tracks
Some covered, sitting adjacent to mine.

Creased and tattered I exhumed this writing;
I found his traces, yet gravestones for naught,
But all I know is his face is still there:
No one touched his behemoth of a house,

Evolved his tower to fantastic heights,
Yet no one bothered to lift an eye,
Now it’s so stressful, now it’s so painful,
Best not try solving, best stay to survive.

Dusk passed and I clefted through your front door
Up to the third floor, nearing the rooftops,
But here I am, bruised from bottles of milk,
Yet I found nothing; I best not go more.

The locked submarine door, the final floor,
I can’t go down or up any further,
And yet I’m always caught every time,
I feel no incentive to continue.

Oh Neighbor, Oh Neighbor, what is your sin
So sorrowful you can’t apologize?
What led you, what made you lock yourself in
And conceal your secrets for none to find?

Here I am, hanging on my last stand pole,
Waiting for reinforcements to arrive,
One day, one day I’ll penetrate your mind
Then resolve might finally be in sight—
Based on the eponymous Hello Neighbo(u)r, complete up to Alpha 3/4. I never got to finishing it, really, considering all the Beta versions and how long it took for the actual release, long after I was still interested in the game.

-Dtr. Guo
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