Dónall Dempsey - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' EVEN THE GRASS LAUGHED

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The house
wore its new lick of paint

like a kid
showing off a new pair of shoes

that nobody else
could afford.

It smiled
like a spoilt brat

until a mangy cur
slouched up

& disdainfully
urinated slowly

against its new blue
doorness.

The windows
rolled thier eyes.

The door gasped.

Even the grass laughed
sniggering silently to itself.

Dónall Dempsey

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