If my guess is right about the the author the author can do much better than this menacingly nice poem. I read "toward" as "t'ward" which is probably regional pronunciation. I like the jarring enjambment of "No one" which emphasises the authority of conformity.
The cloying niceness of this one is deliberate and suggests a quiet madness. I don't think that it is suburban life that is being mocked but something a move further away from individual freedom.
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