SUBURBIA

suburbia
where the developer bulldozes down the trees
then names the streets after them
where the cars slice violently through
the silence of the empty pavements
where fleeting figures emerge from vehicles
and disappear behind their net curtains
where white upvc and the nissan micra reign supreme
where the sun's trajectory is ignored
and light and shade is a random event
where design for living is conspicuously absent
and meaningful experience is not nurtured
where an empty expanse of turf passes for landscaping
where the pedestrian and the child are afterthoughts
where space and form collides instead of flowing
where the signature of the vandal's pen
doodles in frustration and alienation
where there is neither love nor care
thought nor harmony