southernisms
the old southern generationscall soda "cold drinks"
and gas stations are "filling stations"
where they take their automobiles
to fill with gasoline from foreign soils
and when they were young
they would drink cheap beer
and lose their virginity
in the backs of pick-up trucks
with their high school sweet hearts
while listening to sappy country love songs
on fm radio
and go to an old baptist church on sunday
to kneel at an alter
and beg their god for forgiveness
for engaging in activities of human nature
of which their god created them to do
through predestination
all the while never questioning
the drunken hypocrisy of existence
such is life,
sometimes
9/13/15
Poetry by Thomas Perdue
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Written on 2015-09-22 at 19:51
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