Folkston, Georgia, 1960
Posted: 21 Oct 2019, 00:22
Folkston, Georgia, 1960
There was a pond behind
the Robert E. Lee Motel.
The Okefenokee Swamp
a few miles to the west.
Tourists stayed before and after
visiting the Swamp. Northerners
remarked about the Spanish
moss that hung from trees,
“It’s spooky at night, but beautiful.”
Down here there were other things
worse that had swayed in the trees
near the swamps. People don’t
talk about that. There are folks
you never see in town. For those
folks’ kids, a different school
way out in the country.
The folks in town brag about
how nice it is, how grateful
those other folks are,
as if they knew.
There was a pond behind
the Robert E. Lee Motel.
The Okefenokee Swamp
a few miles to the west.
Tourists stayed before and after
visiting the Swamp. Northerners
remarked about the Spanish
moss that hung from trees,
“It’s spooky at night, but beautiful.”
Down here there were other things
worse that had swayed in the trees
near the swamps. People don’t
talk about that. There are folks
you never see in town. For those
folks’ kids, a different school
way out in the country.
The folks in town brag about
how nice it is, how grateful
those other folks are,
as if they knew.