Rising of the South

Jeff Van Booven

When they tried to tell me
that the South would rise again, I laughed.
Nothing short of continental drift
could accomplish that.

They prepared me for the rebel yell:
Go Dale Earnhardt Jr, hooray,
Time for another Budweiser.
Damn Jeff Gordon today!

And how can you rise again,
and fight another war,
when you have to stop most Sunday's
from about one to four?

Such a fitting reminder
of the old aristocracy
and southern culture
to which none of them belong.

So get back down to Dixie
and your land of cotton,
your crusade has long since
been forgotten.
Prose
Poetry
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