Landscaping

We cut

the yellow grass

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androlledthem
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INTOTHICKBALES

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raking flat the black-naked dirt,

we fitted

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tightlyintoplace,

and...........................Sweptcleanthepavementnexttothenewlawn.

Originally published in Cadence, 1988

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