"THE SOUTH SUCKS"

You said "the South sucks"
and that I should leave it
with all its racism
and ignorance
and behind-the-times,
slow to change,
antiquated uncivilized culturalities.
And go to the north.
Perhaps with you, you intimated.
An escape, or excuse, for you
to leave it.
But you are forgetting one thing.
As bad as you say the South is,
it – (as it is) – produced you.
Educated, intelligentsia,
art-relating,
beautiful,
you.