Desmond Dekker Sings "Israelites"
Three mornings ago I saw two men looking with intent at the woods across from our drive and up the hill about 30 feet. Two days ago they came in with a bulldozer. I wonder when they’ll get the house roofed, they seem pretty intent on getting this done fast. If it’s a pre-fab shit-box and the contractor has his utilities ducks in a row we could be looking at new neighbors within the month. Where we want none.
I sat in on the interview my friend gave my dad. He told her of a word that he wanted to see introduced to our lexicon. Subrualites.
Makes sense. Suburbs formed when people moved to he cities, but didn’t want to live in the cities. They clustered around the edges and then, suburbanites. But now we’ve got a strong swing coming back to kick us in the ass. People have tired of the city and the suburbs and want to make a heroic return to “country living.” They come out, buy an acre or two and set up shop. Subrualites. They drive clean trucks and commute hours and buy concrete geese from Home Depot and buy concrete geese outfits at the small town main street stores that have become little more than tourist attractors. They think they are country.
This is all very bad and irritating stuff. But that’s not why I’ve brought you here. The point is, it’s a good and useful term that didn’t exist. Now it does. Use it.
I sat in on the interview my friend gave my dad. He told her of a word that he wanted to see introduced to our lexicon. Subrualites.
Makes sense. Suburbs formed when people moved to he cities, but didn’t want to live in the cities. They clustered around the edges and then, suburbanites. But now we’ve got a strong swing coming back to kick us in the ass. People have tired of the city and the suburbs and want to make a heroic return to “country living.” They come out, buy an acre or two and set up shop. Subrualites. They drive clean trucks and commute hours and buy concrete geese from Home Depot and buy concrete geese outfits at the small town main street stores that have become little more than tourist attractors. They think they are country.
This is all very bad and irritating stuff. But that’s not why I’ve brought you here. The point is, it’s a good and useful term that didn’t exist. Now it does. Use it.
posted by Lord of the Barnyard at 10:57 AM
3 Comments:
Use it in a sentence - The subruralites ruined my view.
Photograph of a concrete goose in an "outfit" please. Preferably an outfit that exposes the inevitable concrete goose tramp stamp. If the subrurality concrete goose temporary tattoo industry has not yet been breeched, dibs.
Get enough subruralites together and they'll ruin each others' view. Classic example of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
May all their wells go dry.
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