Your Suburbia
your suburbia has timer controlled sprinklers to ensure the grass stays beautifully managed, the perfect grass hides a beautifully broken marriage, stress is regulated by secret smoking habits partaken in the garage “she keeps the Malbrough packet hidden behind the hosepipe” you’ve got cellulite, push up bras, caesarean-section scars, four-wheel drive pushchairs, shiny SUV cars, menopausal inconsistencies, love affairs with the local ‘Brad’, “he’s still living with Mum and Dad”, it’s the poetic pretence to a black picket fence painted white for effect your suburbia, sexually frustrated married couples portraying the perfect example of copulation, neighbourhood cook outs, homemade potato salads, one tonne burgers drenched in a mustard only Satan could stomach, too much beer and too much wine it’s time for the drunken ‘fifty something’ to make a scen...
