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:: Thursday, July 06, 2006 ::

"Fake Plastic Trees" is, to me, about fake love

A man and a woman have been in a relationship for some time now. She bought her "green plastic watering can" from "a rubber man in a town full of rubber plans." She is "watering" their fake plastic love, barely keeping the relationship together. The "rubber man" is the man she pretends to be in love with, and the "town full of rubber plans" is all the falsities the two have built up to create what on the surface appears to be a true love-based relationship. This wears her out, because it is hard to admit to yourself that you don't truly love the person you've been with for so long.

The man she lives with is "broken," a "craked polysterene man." "He used to do surgery for girls in the eighties, but gravity always wins." He is completely worn out, and he's getting tired of trying to keep their relationship together. Years ago, "in the eighties", he used to do plastic surgery on girls (i.e. his lover). He used to be able to mold and change his image of his lover in his mind until she looked like someone he could love, but he can't pretend that he loves the real her any longer. Gravity wins. He can't pretend to be in love much longer and knowing this "wears him out."

So, they have a "fake plastic love". Neither of them can be what the other person wants. They feel like they're going to explode and "blow through the ceiling." What would happen if they just turned and ran? This struggle wears them out.

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