Friday, June 28, 2013

...Said Montana to Anyone Who Would Listen

I have been my peoples' mother and their romance and their whore,
and now I am their battle ground as their words wage civil war
Between the first of my two children, the work and industry
Who have sweated, who have taken, and above all, needed me,
and the second of my children. They admire and they love
Me, but not my other child, whom they think they're above,
Because they live in leisure and engage me in their sport,
and in fairness, the older has done nothing to the younger's favor court,
But there's a new kid in the family at whom both his elders shout.
The Californians want to change me. Old and New West say “get out.”

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