THE VIRGINIANS

Chris Skiles

 

The Jews had the rabbis

The Greeks had philosophy

 

The deer have their woods

And the bears have their berry patches;

 

But the Virginians have the deers’ woods

And the bears’ berry patches.

 

And they are all the more animal for it.

 

They have the Tinder

But of the web, not of the forest.

 

They have the teeth of the bear

And the cowardly spots of the fawns;

 

They have their dogs that constantly bark,

That poop on your lawn.

 

And they are all the more animal for it.