JERSEY VINNIES

 

Watching a scene

from a Harold & Kumar flick

& they are tormented

at convenience store

by ruffians appropriating Apu’s

“Thank you, come again.”

 

Thank you,

Douchebag Jersey Vinnies

for desecrating a legend.

 

But we all know them

Everybody knows

that guy named Vinnie

from New Jersey.

 

Could be the Pine Barrens,

Rahway, Trenton, the shore:

 

That churlish lout

that has to

say the wrong thing;

has to pick 

on the Asian kid

or whoever else is different.

 

That Natty Ice Light drinking,

NASCAR watching,

 Donald J Trump voting rube.

 

We all know a Jersey Vinnie

& few of us

can claim

our lives are better for it.

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Thank you for Bruce Springsteen and Frank Sinatra but it's not all a bowl of cherries.

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allets's picture

If

I had seen a Harold and Kumar flick I'd understand more. Jist is good. The definition of "rube" was cool. - slc


 

 

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Seeing the movie helps but I

Seeing the movie helps but I was just referring to a degree of ignorance in a lot of people.  I intentionally used Jersey because it's a very liberal state but they have quite a few people that mirror ones from states where the cliches come from.