Suburban People Poem by Gert Strydom

In the suburbs daily the houses
are without their residents
while the maid washes and do the ironing,
at times do prepare the supper,

while the children are at the pre-school,
school and after-school,
or at babysitters
or maybe there is a grandma
that in the afternoons does take care of them

and the taxman deducts his money,
in the evenings dad's expensive car
is parked in the garage
when he and mom does come from the gymnasium

and outside the garden is flowering
and not even on weekends
they are aware of it,
when they go and brag at the church
and the rest of the week they are at work.

When the holiday comes
the whole family takes to the road
to make a splash at Margate,
when mom wears a scanty bikini
which lets her breasts stand lascivious

and do complain that she is too obese for the beach,
are not burnt brown enough
while she does know that she is very sexy
and the children do frolic around in the water.

© Gert Strydom