Flipping ‘Em The State Bird Of Texas

Just because Our Lady of Guadalupe
appeared to Edgar Allan Poe in Taft, Texas,
that don’t makes him welcome.

Walt Whitman tried to ride a bucking bronc.
At his age. And what was he thinking
trying to grow a ZZ Top beard?

Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote the first
poem about female masturbation.
We don’t lao that kinda smut in Texas, dearie.

Kenneth Rexroth tried to import
Japanese poetry across our borders.
We don’t cotton to haiku scaring our purple cows.

And that wimpy e. e. cummings aimed to
steal the music of our mockingbirds,
but the tinhorn was booted with proper punctuation.