Secrets of suburbia
Secrets of sleepy suburbia behind every curtain.
Kicked off high heels, scruffied school shirts and
still, hidden lives play out inside heavy heads.
Dark dramas execute themselves and all the while
mundanity trickles on and the surreal
tantalises and teases and tinges the real.
Tonight he sat and held hands with a girl
who lives in another, a different world.
Tonight he’ll order a family Chinese;
tomorrow he’ll be begging her, down on his knees.
2004
