fenced pools in 100 degree weather

If something happens, if anything goes wrong, don’t feel bad, we’ve built a fence around you.

Now the pedophiles can watch from a safe distance through the bars, or get a good peek over it if they’re tall enough. Large animals will stay out of the pool this way. Perhaps they are the same thing? It depends on who you ask, really.
The mother, the victim, the shallow spectator. They will probably say yes, but then their lives have singular purposes, or at least when you take a quick peek at them.

Inside of these four small fences exists the serenity of the simple life. A dad winding up its kids to then yell at them to be quieter. A mom throws coins around the pool to create an activity for her offspring. She has them diving up and down re-collecting her spare change, letting all the other moms know about it. She’s even convinced herself there’s some educational use to it. She’s the perfect mom when she looks in the mirror at night. It’s all about filling up useless time and space, for love has been defined in labels of usefulness here.
After all they’re all wearing sunglasses.

An English couple looks like they’re trying to do a successful imitation of Michael Jackson, with the amount of sunscreen they’ve put on their sensitive faces. An extra sunhat just to be sure wouldn’t hurt, they thought to themselves before they left their vacation houses on this unacceptably hot morning.

Another dad is overly active, being just present enough to his kids and wife, but peeks at the overly exposed butt that happens to be mine. I happen to love stirring up the domestic hell that lives within these fences. It’s not because they all have kids that I’m disgusted by them, it’s because they’ve created new life and they’ve taken it here.

Uninspiring, lifeless, sad abandonment of the nature so close, yet so invisible from this angle. There’s nothing scary here, but everything. Nothing new, nothing surprising, exciting, nor beauty or nature. Just the breath from one generation onto the next. Until it burns up.
And then both the fence, and the kids, and the parents, settled in their ways will all be gone.

-D.