and tried to steal

my sapodillas

I got out

of my house

screaming

and they ran away

they were so amused

they were sitting

down the road

and laughing

and when I

looked at them

they got up

and ran again

and disappeared

into another road

and once

some boys

had tried

to steal my coconuts

they had jumped

into my property

from the one

alongside mine

but upon seeing me

looking at them

they ran away too

and I remember

myself as a boy

the mischief

I was up to

with my friends

though we never

stole anything

lighting firecrackers

in the exhausts

of lovers’ cars

parked on our

street

shooting streetlights

with air rifles

and the thrill

of pressing

someone’s doorbell

and running away

gives me the chuckles

today.