In the Suburbs
There's no way out. You were born to waste your life. You were born to this middleclass life
As others before you Were born to walk in procession To the temple, singing.
Louis Simpson
FuenteLicencia:Public domain (US, unrenewed)
There's no way out. You were born to waste your life. You were born to this middleclass life
As others before you Were born to walk in procession To the temple, singing.
In just six lines, Simpson turns a feeling of suburban entrapment into a blunt, almost accusatory statement. The speaker tells “you”—and perhaps himself—that there is no escape, that a person born into this comfortable but empty middle-class world is doomed to waste life rather than live it.
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