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For Ed Matlack…I Thought You Yanks Were Tough?

by J. Allen Wilson — Read all 1,629 poems by J. Allen Wilson

This is for Ed Matlack and his gripe on the south. According to the weather channel, downtown Philly got 4.8 inches of snow and they shut the game down for that? I understand some outlying areas got much more…but oh but why gripe anymore?

Monday, December 27, 2010


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For Ed Matlack…I Thought You Yanks Were Tough?

 

 

All I ever hear from you are cuts about the south from the great white north,

All about how we can’t handle a little bit of snow for what it’s worth.

Yet I can’t help but smile when I hear they shut down football for awhile.

Yep, there was no game in Philly because they received in snowfall a total of 4.8”.

 

Now I understand that where I live in the south that we only got a measly 3”.

Yet less than 100 miles north from my place some mountain towns got 28”.

I understand that Jersey though got quite a bit of snow.

Therefore I will concede to the Jersey Devil that I know.

 

But don’t laugh at the south no more when I see the mighty yanks slipping and sliding by the shore.

At least with our little measly 3, we were able to drive and not from a football game flee.

So Eddie M…If the yanks are that tough, then why are they still flocking to the Sunbelt...is it that rough?

 

Is it because you can no longer take the cold, or is it because you are getting old?

There is no need to fear if you should in late life venture here.

Contrary to what you continually to me say… for all basics we no longer have the KKK.

 

You call us rednecks’, you call us names, yet we are peace loving, for if we weren’t…we would not let you stay.

So quit your whining lest to you I say…

 

Dear sir…do you want a little cheese with your WHINE…

Or should we just allow you just a little more time?

 

J. Allen Wilson © 12/27/2010

 

 

 



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Reviewed by m j hollingshead
Reviewed on December 28, 2010
chuckle, gotta have a touch of the south to REALLY understand, enjoyed the read

Reviewed on December 27, 2010
LOL, Allen, this had me laughing from first word 'til last. Well done!

(((HUGS))) love and continued prayer, Karla.

Reviewed by Lois Christensen
Reviewed on December 27, 2010
humor at its best here.

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on December 27, 2010
I'm not the one who cancelled the game & to be honest I wouldn't have either...they said it was for the fans & the fact that they were expecting much more snow...that said, NJ shore areas like here got 12 to 18 or so inches out of the little storm & if the predictions for warmer weather this week come true, it will hopefully melt away before this time next week...BUT I LOVED THIS LITTLE DIG YOU WROTE, IT WAS A MOST FUN READ...I SMILED ALL THE WAY THROUGH IT, but know this, if you got what we got yesterday, blizzard proportion snows & white out winds, you'd be hiding in your beds crying the blues while New Jerseyites are out and about doing their thing as soon as the snow stopped coming down...hell I was over to the store in the middle of it, just to see how well or not the old Pontiac did driving in the snow...Thanks bro' I enjoyed this no end...ED


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