April Poem-A-Day: Day 2

Today's Prompt: Today, I want you to write an outsider poem. You can be the outsider; someone else can be the outsider; or it can even be an animal or inanimate object that's the outsider. As usual, get creative with the prompt and don't be afraid to stretch the limits.

And my poem (which, I admit, is borrowing from a story I've previously written):

Seeking Tolerance

I only wanted to stay warm
And find a place to rest
But the loud noise startled me
And now I am a pest

You stayed away another day
I thought you'd welcomed me
Instead you set out mothballs,
which smells painfully bad to me

I cannot help biology
I wish you'd let me stay
I'll eat mice and other vermin
And try not to spray

Although it is my only defense
I know it has no place
But perhaps we could coexist
If you'd just accept my race

Instead I wander aimlessly
Surviving, hungry and sad
It's hard to be a skunk in the suburbs
When your disappearance makes people glad