A WOKE INTRUSION

*Carpetbagger on the Move” self portrait by Lawrence Robert Pierson Floersh

High upon Appalachian hill

Socked a ways away back in

Of off the street and thru some thistle

Are eleven little nook houses

     A secret enclave

          Of wokers

Yes WOKERS

Hidden there

Occupying foreign ground

     To them

What

From far back up east

And far out west

I say, “Why? Why y’all come here?

To my world?

They reek of righteous

     Indignation

Liberal values for sure

Unintendingly

          of course

With horse blinders to avoid change

To drag their woke ideals

Down our ways

And seek to hide and change

Something we need not nor want!

imposing oblivious “liberal values”

where none are sought

Lord, They come in droves

     As if fleeing

Fleeing something

          Rotten

They don’t comprehend

Stay - OK

your welcome

Just leave your drivel home

No! No! We say in neighborly way

Don’t drag your woke feet here

If you must stay

     Here have a beer

Don’t hyphenate

     assimilate

          Learn our ways

For we’ve been here

Since this land begun

Fleeing wokeness ourself

     from the English land

We settled these hills centuries ago

To live in Christian peace

To love our sacred land,

     Fair and decent souls

Perhaps our moral values

    Ingrained in these here hills

        We pray

                Will cause them not to stay

For the strength of humanity

     Here

Might send them roaming

          Wokers home away

And pray woke

And miserable

They may not

     Still remain

To fester

Our rational brand

Of level headed

Common sense patriotic ways

Y’all come! Ya heer😉

PS: 🎶 pleeeeeease, woke 🎶 don’t bring your trash to town 🎶

tom tenbrunsel

Poet Laureate of Appalacia

Author’s Note: Here there is no room for woke hate. These Appalachians are a homey peaceful place, best kept secret in the nation. I’ve attempted to reflect the mood of the good Appalachian people. Who though ridiculed by condescending racist northern carpetbaggers as racist senseless shoeless hillbilly’s, have lived by solid moral conservative neighborly patriotic (more volunteers came out out Appalachia to defend this Nation in wars than New York and California combined) Christian values for centuries, as they are confronted by the effete liberal woke, fleeing the corrupt big cities. Not a chance! The result is abrasive on the indigenous, an insult to common decency.

For the woke I suggest a gut check and check, your values and righteous indignation at Appalacia’s door. Iffen you don’t fit here. Assimilate! We don’t hyphenate round these parts. You’ll be happier here learning our backwoods neighborly patriotic ways. But hey, do come back to visit and . . .

“Don’t let the screen door hit you in the ass!”

tom tenbrunsel

Poet Laureate of Appalachia