One night I was walking home from the A&P
carrying two tall six-packs of beer. I was in the oldest
subdivision of
and retirees raising their divorced daughter’s children. Out of every house
was emanating a blue light, the television Movie-of-the-Week.
The Stepford Wives. Not the remake. The original.
Then they remade it, or made a sequel.
Maybe it was a continuing series.
Maybe people forgot what they’d seen.
Maybe they had short memories.
Maybe they had attention deficit disorder.
Maybe they were batshit crazy. You know. Like now.
I saw a bumper sticker, I couldn’t make it out, it said
OBAMA LIAR.
What does that mean?
What message is intended?
I’m a conservative?
I’m easily confused?