We've been living in this tenement for one year
and we are well-known.
But imagine what I just
found under our front door:
It's a letter from our neighbors,
It says that we have to move out!
They think you and I don't fit
in this honorable house.
Because we live together as a couple
and are still without a marriage certificate.
They had a meeting yesterday
And then voted
And the community of all tenants now writes:
"Move out of here!
Because a wild marriage doesn't fit
in this honorable home."
Everyone signed;
Now look at the long list:
The woman next door
who can't keep her lies to herself.
And the woman from the ground floor, every day, spying on everybody every day,
also this guy who beats his daughter
speaks for this honorable home.
And then the fat woman that spoils the dog
but forgets her own kid.
The old man who's always telling us
what's prohibited in this house.
And the guy from the first floor
looking outside of the window all the time
reporting everybody (to the police) who parks in the wrong spot
in front of this honorable home.
The grey Don Juan
always staring at you shamelessly in the elevator.
The widow who prevented
that a black man can move in.
And the woman from above, when the gasman comes,
she takes off her dressing gown;
They all are ashamed of us
because this is, of course, an honorable house.
If you ask me
I can't take this hyprocrisy any longer.
We'll pack our belongings and move away
out of this honorable home.