This Is Not New Jersey
Year: 2023
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This Is Not New Jersey Look, cousins, you made the wrong turn.This is not New Jersey.These salt marshes and pine trees understand Neither Gaelic nor Sasenach English, And those Leni Lenape' your fathers killed Are walking around your closed, scared, suburban houses, So you'd better just split.If you want New Jersey, well, I think you go to Tear down Old Jersey and build a new one there; You can't import Jerseys, or Yorks, or Hampshires.Or Georgias.Those ½ acre wooded lots are not suitable for building And Mr. Penn does not own that sylvan countryside.Now look, you huddled masses are messing up our corn Crop and the beans rows we took such care with.Why don't you go huddle in Jersey or Silesia, Or just ride a passenger pigeon into the sunrise?Why don't you just clear out?Drop dead?At least forget about Jersey, cousin; you're too lost For that.Hey, cousins, even the grass around here hates you, You know that?Why don't you just pack up your golf Balls and jump in the gulf?
Source: Wissen der Künste
Author: Jimmie Durham
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4387057046