#lawns
Two neighbors from Naseby compete
Whenever they pour some wet concrete
Whose sidewalk will dry
First, or is it a tie?
Luxuriant lawns are also a feat.
Jun 18, 2024
Jun 18, 2024 at 3:50 PM UTC
I shouldn't have bothered.
I thought this was a posh area.
Now I see it's not.
'Tommy Rot!'
Look at the gardens.
The lawns are covered in weeds.
'Rubbish! We grow herbs a lot.'
Even you're car's a mess.
Not been cleaned in ages.
'I wash it often,
every guilt trip day.'
And those dogs, do they howl all night?
'Oh no. Nothing like that.
It's just the neighbours in a fight.'
Feb 14, 2017
Feb 14, 2017 at 1:34 PM UTC
I have a
Legacy.
Old Christmas lights
Vinyl siding
Rusted bicycles sprawled
On thumbnail lawns.
Two a.m cigarettes
On wooden porches
Scaffolding to store
Gasoline cans under.
I have a
Legacy.
"You were raised in
A trailer park."
But wasn't I?
Wasn't it the truth?
I have a
Legacy
A life that I
Escaped.
Thumbnail lawns can't
Compare to the life I got.
But not all will have
That kind of chance.
Jul 18, 2016
Jul 18, 2016 at 8:43 PM UTC