"I am going to make up a legend.

It is going to concern a pink house in Connecticut.

There are going to be four people in my legend.

A husband, a wife, a son, and a daughter.

Their house is about to be surrounded by trees.

The lawn grows higher and higher.

Sometimes the curtains are not opened for days on end.

Lights are seen at all hours of night.''

-- From "The Writer's House,'' by Dick Allen