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categories = ["Poetry"]
date = "2018-09-20T16:27:46-04:00"
tags = ["Neighbors", "Shame"]
title = "Lawncare"
year = 2018
+++
{{< poem >}}
The neighbors watched
Our grass grow
As they gossiped about
Us riffraff.

We tried our best
To lay low,
But still felt the scorn
In each laugh.

Even our own
Brought a sense of shame
With no one to blame
On our behalf.

Parsimony
Parts the lonely
Until one has
The last half.
{{< / poem >}}