They live in a very nice place;
some would describe it as
paradise type space
with access up the dune and
then down to the big water’s
space.
The problem isn’t that they are
the riffraff in the valley
as those in their place
as a top duner humorously states.
They are on a public access
road with plenty of space
for people of every stripe and race.
The problem comes from rules
that outpace
the thinking of the flat-landers, the dune
top wannabees who, down in their
flat-land space,
lift their noses on the other flat-
landers on public access
space
and who strive to impose their
restrictive rules and dominate
association space,
but the riffraff in the valley
will never embrace the false
posturing face
of those back road flat-landers who
would push and shove all
those with legal space
who hold their ground and look
the opposition straight
in the face
and say to back off now and don’t
embrace such an unethical
disgrace,
which isn’t just an illegal but
a far more damning and
deplorable place
for white, evangelicals to
embrace, and so it is in every
time and place.
bobdahl 
Amen!!!!!
Very nice! Poem and the Place. Reminds me of Betz’s husband’s disdain for the Midwest…o, no! An NYC guy had an extra trip with flat landers, for Jim’s service. Now he’s off the hook for the current decade, and they cruise during school vacations, Xmas and Easter, so we don’t go to LA for holidays. The Boy, as he is called, is in every sport … no lacrosse yet: I always thought LAX was just an airport till it popped up on Forest Hills tees — also C rew, which I thought was just j. Crew knock-0ffs. As if…anyone would have a knock- off.
When do you go west for winter…soon? Steve is lording it over me that he got your e- mail about 11-syllable line X2 poems. Honestly, I read your poems, but in the e-mail your blog sends. Need that address, ’cause he’s adding you to his poetry mailings.
He asserts that you guys are the real poets & he knows it. True, I am now radically changing the church newsletter and do the PR and ads, copywriting for new Manistique Chorus and the County Community Board incl. shortening their mission statement and rewriting the brochure to, primarily, get grievers to donate: main distrib. is at funeral homes.
Did I forget I retired?
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