Finding a flat in Vienna

Which is not overpriced
Is considered among all
Seekers to rent:
A miracle!
The painful search causes
Horrendous frustrations.
People seeking to rent
Surpasses many times
Accommodation offered:
One calls it a renter’s market.
Stage 1: Exhilaration starts
When one is offered some
Reasonable roof over
One’s head
Especially if the room is
Furnished.
Stage 2: Once settled in
The list of complaints will
Cover a whole page.
But bit by bit the priority
Of grievances is discussed
With a difficult landlord.
Stage 3: the poet settles in
And he receives a desk
Fitting onto the kitchenette
Which will be his domain.
His spouse uses the tea table
In the bedsitter annexed to
A leather couch
She was left with
By a friendly neighbour
Who moved out in the cloak
Of night.
Stage 4: the domestic fights
Continue since day one
In the sleepy hamlet of the
Historic County near Vienna
Where famous poets and
Scientists are buried.
The poet’s spouse has finished
With her life in the village W.
And she rather commutes
On a reduced senior ticket
Frequently to the capital.
But as she used to enjoy
The surrounding fields and
Woods before
Jogging daily in the morn’
Who knows what the next
Stage in her life will bring?
STAGES.SEGATS
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ZJG-POetry’19.