What
are cars but mobile rooms of our house? And
driveways but landing pads of sci-fi lives? New houses fronted by
multiplex garages have other rooms out the back. Driveways of perfect concrete
wait for take-off or landing. We are too many, say the cars. Built-in
obsolescence shows no sign of ending. Other driveways keep up pretences, behind
gates curve up to the door, decorations in a period movie. Thinner driveways
along fences are abandoned, householders parking angularly across lawns or
ant-line-like in gutters. Driveways convert into BBQ areas. Trees self-seeded
in May reclaim driveways. Clapped-out bombs grow upholstery grass.
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