Who’s Conservative?
By Richard D. Kahoe, Woodward, OK
You might call me conservative, if you will;
I hold to things and values from the past.
In Grandma’s Baptist faith I worship still,
And wear my suits as long as they can last.
Biodiversity, I think, has served us well;
I wish to keep the ozone overhead;
I pray to God my children’s air not smell,
And keep the hydrocarbons from our bread.
But now so-called “conservatives” I hear
Traduce the greenhouse threat and ozone holes,
Disparage spotted owl and grizzly bear,
Malign the wetlands act and gun controls.
I will my children’s children yet to live—
Don’t call those reckless knaves “conservative!”
