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[aid] => mick
[title] => Dear Suburbia
[time] => 2005-10-05 10:51:21
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[bodytext] => Dear suburbia, I know what you did last night At 2:37 am when you thought we were all asleep I know what you did when you believed that no one would be watching And calling out all your fatal flaws Last night I learned the secret of suburbia I learned your fear of rejection If you were sitting outside with your boyfriend, Does suburbia even have a boyfriend, An older sister, a younger brother? Do you have a gender or a life. Sometimes you’re my mother She does everything wrong with the best intentions. Sometimes you’re my father. He’s a liar. If you were sitting outside with you lover on the third evening of fall Talking about escape from this hell (Where tragedy is just the word in the dictionary Or the story told by Aztec paintings In year old World History textbooks Suburbia I don’t want to mean, But you used to make me want to die young) Would you except to see the outbreak of fire The sudden spread of disease Suburbia, that night I saw your true self I felt a sudden surge of love for you that disappeared After the seventh grade when we stopped going to the mall for shopping But rather to sit outside Borders and talk about everything that never meant anything I didn’t realize how cruel you could be And I still can’t understand why you hide beneath Grass cut to one inch high by Mexicans And filthy money made by gamblers and thieves [comments] => 3 [counter] => 587 [topic] => 76 [informant] => xbleedingheart [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 0 [associated] => [topicname] => obsession )
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