The Suburbs

It’s the suburban war that makes me say, “You really bought into the game.” It’s the stay at home moms popping Xanax in their minivans before taking their children to soccer practice. It’s the students crying over a B-, or the ones that snort their PRESCRIBED Adderall for their apparent ADD. It’s the disconnect between these people and themselves. No rationalization from one of their personas to the next. I mean, who fuck are you, a soccer mom or a junkie?  Their rational for their actions is to take away the pain of having to compromise ones values for others. But the façade is so cheap. Couldn’t you at least spend a little more money on a better veneer than that cheap stucco you bought at Home Depot? Or rather, why not just loose the façade entirely? If the suburbs are really just a prostitute dressed up for tea time, I’d rather hear stories about that one time when “NSFW,”[1] than, “How great it was that Stephanie finally got rid of the Christmas decorations in front of her house after 3 months.” I often fear that the scripts these actors play will eventually become truth, because at that point, all meaning dissipates from life. That’s what reminds me of the game. These poor people are getting lost in their own maze perfectly groomed by their gardener Juan. You really bought into the game, haven’t you?






[1] “Not safe for work” slang on Internet.

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