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Keeping Up With The Homeowners ASSociation: The Sacking Of A Cul de Sac...

Bluesy Socrateaser
Member Elite

since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

0 posted 2019-01-02 10:12 PM

The mannequins move upon the screen,
air-brushing reality from the dream,
Woman defined by only her home,
generic male is industry's drone

Art imitates life, to the neighbors' acclaim
as the ersatz couple are perfectly framed
With their synthetic children and enamel smiles,
behold; “Still Life With Plastic Tiles”

So the interrogation begins,
the spotlight falls upon the wife’s sins:
“HOW CLEAN IS YOUR HOUSE? ARE YOU ONE OF US?”
Quick! Clean the dirt, and polish the dust!

The whole world glares through double-glazed eyes,
at your pitch-black whites, and your cellulite thighs
Eight out of ten say you're incomplete,
‘til your soul smiles back at you from clean white sheets

So exorcize your home in the Aryan way,
and keep the dust devils safely at bay
Scrub your children until they bleed,
or people will think that you're strange indeed

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2019-01-03 07:20 AM

Bluesy, you sooo nailed it. Maybe you have met my parents...Ward and June Cleaver...they are perfect and the house was spotless...didn't need an association to tell them the right way to do things. Mom was an impossible act to follow....I didn't get her OCD gene so I settled for feeling inadequate and dust ridden.

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

2 posted 2019-01-03 08:34 AM

each and everyone of us, owns our own secrets....so....but yes, you most certainly did nail it....perfectly, well written.

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

3 posted 2019-01-03 09:11 AM

And this is why I seek isolation... to give those pointing fingers some rest. LOL You've definitely nailed the HOA/Stepford Wives/March-in-step syndrome. Well done!!

Bluesy Socrateaser
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since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

4 posted 2019-01-05 08:21 PM

quote:
" Maybe you have met my parents...Ward and June Cleaver..."

Ha-ha-ha!

...just bein' Bluesy

Bluesy Socrateaser
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since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

5 posted 2019-01-05 08:22 PM

Thanks so much, Lee!

...just bein' Bluesy

Bluesy Socrateaser
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since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

6 posted 2019-01-05 08:24 PM

Thanks to you, Ruth!

I trust you're doing well...

...just bein' Bluesy

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