In Middle America Somewhere

He walks out to the car whistling
she walks the dog for exercise
the neighbor mows the lawn humming
under the throes of suburban skies

The optimally settled, routined unchaos
so the loveseat became a couch years ago
some stop here 'cause you can never go back
methadone rates high, the statistics show
but anyway, what do they know?

Let's go buy a sensible car
and have two point three children then
let's mingle and socialize with businessmen
we can wear Tommys so we can fit in

we could go to Disney World on vacation
every year until we retire
then you could work on the house and yard
and I could take up knitting by the fire

and we could exist in silence there
eventually you get immune to despair
lost like the rest and don't even care
in middle america somewhere.