We don't have skyscrapers

in Nothin' Flat, West Virginia

but we do have sky

and a few old coal tipples

that embrace the blue,

and valleys so low that the river runs

upstream,

and hollows so narrow

that old men say that the

dog has to wag its tail

up and down,

'stead of sideways.

 

So if you're tired of life

and skyscrapers of New York City,

come to the hills and hollows of West Virginia,

and the life you thought you lost

in a New York minute

you'll find,

in Nothin' Flat.