Yaroslav Pavluk
The Little House In Which Nobody Is Sleeping
In this beautiful house there lived a little boy.
Over the boy’s room there lived a dog who was barking all night long, and the boy couldn’t sleep.
And over the dog there lived a she cat, who was meowing all night long, and the dog couldn’t sleep.
Over the cat there lived a gray mouse, who was gnawing a hole the night long, and the cat couldn’t sleep
And over the mouse there was the roof, on which it rained every night, and the mouse couldn’t sleep.
So it was the house in which nobody slept at night, because
(and again from the very beginning)