[thenightwriterblog] The Night Writer: What's that crunching?

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Posted by The Night Writer:
What's that crunching?
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   Oh, never mind, it's just my yard. It's dry, dry, dry. Walking across
   my grass sounds like stepping on pretzels. There was more
   precipitation from the watermelon-seed-spitting contest at the church
   picnic last Sunday than we've had in the last month. I go out to get
   the morning paper and the voices of the blades of grass cry out to me
   like a million little William Shatners: "Must...have....water...now.
   (Khan!)"
   I'm not insensitive. I've tried to help. The yard is too big to save
   everyone, but I turned on the sprinkler over the weekend for the
   sections closest to the house. The ground sucked it up so fast that
   the vacuum almost pulled me over backwards. Two months ago all was
   lush and green and the grass would do the wave, taunting me as I
   mowed. "Na na na, hey-hey! Mulching? We don't need no stinking
   mulching!"
   Now the only patches of green are the weeds, which are (as always)
   undaunted. "No, no, it's cool, man. We like it like this, no matter
   how hard or dry it gets. One day, us weeds and the cockroaches are
   going to rule everything!"
   Lord, send the rain. Soon.