Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Midwestern Hospitality

We may not have the manners
of our Southern fellows
but there is no monopoly
on regional welcome
hearty are our meals
conversation, direct and simple
silence, a comfortable companion
kindness, restrained but instant
working people, guileless people
who'd give you the coat off their back
and stop to help you change a flat
who say what they mean
and mean what they say.
A people who, when trouble comes, they stay.

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