Good Intensions
Now I admit I’ m country-born and so big cities ain’ t my norm so I had found I can make use of being dumb as my excuse in conversations with the law on what I think I thought I saw for in the country we got rules for folks like that that act like fools and them ain’ t ones we made at all it’ s up to Mother Nature’ s call!
Like take for instance inna park when someone robs you after dark why in the country where I’ m from we all know that’ s really dumb for every move that robber makes he’ s followed everywhere by snakes and other creatures of the night that also wanna take a bite of any part that you expose from top of head to tip of toes!
And I can see why under feet you walk in lanes of pure concrete for in the country we got bugs you never find in city rugs thus they avoid the stabs and stings that livin’ in the country brings but we get bugs before our eyes that you ain’ t got called butterflies and dragonflies and other things with pretty colored kinds of wings that in the city can’ t reside because of herb and pesticide!? And in the city I’ d be cruel to put fish in your swimmin’ pool while in our country swimmin’ hole the critters there are in control for if you step upon a rock you might be in for quite a shock for it moves beneath your feet you could be something it would eat for city folks would not be fond of snapping turtles from our pond!
And in the city on the street where the squares of asphalt meet the stoplights guide the ebb and flow of where the human’ s traffic go but in the forest on a path you may incur the local wrath of any type of size of creature that just might have a special feature that city folk don’ t wanna face at any time in any place!
Like do not think you can debunk the power of the scented skunk to clear a park or any square in any city anywhere! And I admit I don’ t recall that ever in a shopping mall have I ever heard the howl of wolves and coyotes on the prowl stalking up and down the aisle in any type of way or style while at a checkout they must wait for shoppers on their dinner plate!?
So I admit I ain’ t too bright on different laws the city might take for granted with concern that I leave town and not return for I admit I did resort to that excuse in city court that I’ m as dumb as I could be since country critters all run free so what was I supposed to do I’ d never seen a city zoo and I admit that in my rage I opened up each critter’ s cage and set them loose with all my pity for I had learned that in the city they’ ll have to hunt from yard to yard and need a phone and credit card! … somehow that didn’ t seem to bother’ em none …
— Gunther Flumm
58 Our Brown County • Jan./ Feb. 2020