Regarding Southern Novelists Or, Throw the Scions to the Lions in the Street
by W. F. GEKLE, JR.
FROM the dank and dreary drivel
Of the Southroners who snivel
as they mingle tears and mucus on their sleeves,
From their alcoholic uncles
and their Freudian carbuncles
and their mansions molding right up to the eaves,
From their gardens rank and weedy
and their relatives gone seedy
and their bouts in bars and brothels night and day,
From all these Southron novels
about aristocratic hovels
Libera nos (and we mean it) Domine!
Of the Southroners who snivel
as they mingle tears and mucus on their sleeves,
From their alcoholic uncles
and their Freudian carbuncles
and their mansions molding right up to the eaves,
From their gardens rank and weedy
and their relatives gone seedy
and their bouts in bars and brothels night and day,
From all these Southron novels
about aristocratic hovels
Libera nos (and we mean it) Domine!