March 08, 2025 – B

My extended family,
particularly on my mother's side,
was not a place you would care
to spend much time.

One day was like another,
one conversation was an extension 
of all the others, continuing, on-going,
unending repetition of yesterday
and the day before.

"Original" and "Interesting" would not be terms
used to describe anything that was going on.
Their diet was the same year after year.
A new dish of anything was out of the question.

I couldn't get out of there soon enough,
or far enough away.

Where did that come from?

We choose our environment.
What we do and how fits us,
expresses us,
exhibits us.

We are who we hang with.

That was the Mississippi delta I left behind,
moving east.
Now, I don't want to go an farther west
than my back yard.
And am glad I don't have to.

But, the Delta mentality is everywhere.
Trump is a wealthy landowner
in Sunflower County, Mississippi.