indiana vanilla

[Achebe]

no one warned us we could become this bored ........the opening line gets my attention
[the young women of the midwestern cornfields] ............ too long. clunky - I'd suggest dropping a syllable. Perhaps 'Iowan'?. also, i assume that the young women etc. are referring to yourself.

       or maybe they did
              and we blanked them out ................. as someone else mentioned, the spacing suits this line well

because their words tasted like yet another Cool Whip
Jello and Marshmallow salad ....a fresh image. nice.
because their laughs were fictional as teenage abstinence ...."teenage abstinence" is clunky.The simile is not particularly striking.

because their creased khakis and blonde hair droned on
of nothing but ranch dressing and choral music
in syllables as clean as Christian radio ....nice. Love this strophe.

By the poem's end, i'm left confused as to who the 'they' of L3 are: the young women themselves? 
Also, Indiana, Iowa....all the same to me. 
A mixed poem.