Little Jams: Rural Niceness, Urban Niceness

The hospitality of rural people

is something very real

but it might be empowered by

not having to interact with people

in ways that are inherently inconvenient.

Those of us in the city

really are some grouches

but the way we get along

Is really quite legitimate.

All of us are challenged by

and given benefits from

the situations that we don’t choose to be in.

I get guess the friction that lies inside

what you choose to do and what you gotta do

is what makes people proud of themselves

And makes us so loathing of peers.

The country man

sees more menacing

in someone trying to have their way

the city man

sees more innocence

in someone pushing someone around,

and the reverse could be said for either.

City mouse, country mouse,

I just want to turn it inside out.