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Date Posted: 20:17:03 09/21/02 Sat
Author: The Serpent
Subject: This Could Be Anywhere

This Could Be Anywhere

Cold concrete apartments
Rise up from wet black asphalt
Below them a few carcasses
Of the long gone age of privacy

It takes a scary kind of illness
To design a place like this for pay
Downtown's an endless generic mall
Of video games and fast food chains

One by one -- the little houses
Are bricked up and condemned
A subtle hint to move
Before the rats move in

This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere

Those new kids at school seem cool
But dad says not to talk to them
Stick to your old friends
"They're not our kind..."

So now there's lots of fights

Many people I know
Come of age tense and bitter-eyed
Can't create so they just destroy

C'mon!

Let's set someone's dog on fire!

Empty plastic culture slum
Suburbia is a war zone now
Sprouting the kinds of gangs
We thought we'd left behind

This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere

Kids at school are taking sides...

Religious, colored, and uniformed lines....

My dad's gone and bought a gun...

He says he's fed up
With the crime in this town...

This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere

Anywhere
Everywhere

I hope I'm gone before it explodes!

I linger late at night
Waiting for the bus
No amount of neon jazz
Could hide the oozing vibes of death

My dad's a vigilante now
He's bringing home
These weird-ass friends
Like the guy who fires blanks at his t.v.
When re-runs of Kojak's on

Or the guy who shows off
His submachine gun
To his sixteen-year-old
Daughter's friends
Whose sense of pride and hope
Is being in the police reserve?

This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere

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Replies:

Re: This Could Be Anywhere -- Lona, 23:04:41 09/21/02 Sat
- Re: I sure will. -- The Serpent, 20:52:40 09/22/02 Sun
Re: This Could Be Anywhere -- sjk, 02:03:24 09/28/02 Sat
Re: This Could Be Anywhere -- sjk, 14:37:17 10/11/02 Fri