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Public Housing


The rattle 
in the walls
would stop, 
I’m told, 
if the litter 
in the halls
were edible.
Night after night,
tin after tin 
the rats squeeze in 
to feast on 
their reflections.


Donal Mahoney

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010




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