Word of the Day Challenge: Paradisiac
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Jolyn Tallman lives on a street
where all of the houses look freshly painted
and all of the women bob their hair
and wear jewelry they bought on their last vacation
to Mexico or L.A. and
Labradoodles and cats sun themselves in their picture book backyards.
The woman on Jolyn’s street belong to book clubs
and sniff their wine before they sip it
except for when they are alone
and no one is around to watch them
and applaud them for how cultured they are
with admiration beaming from their eyes.
Sometimes on Jolyn’s street
a visitor from another world stops by one of the houses
that always looks freshly painted
and the visitors all sit on the edge of their chairs,
with their hands clenched tightly in their laps
and smiles plastered on their faces until it’s time to leave
and when they leave
those visitors get into their cars
and roll the windows down
they turn the radio up
push their seats back and in that moment
they find Paradise in the suburbs.
