Narrow Horizons

No need to travel, to look
beyond the comfort of the
familiar, the urge to discover
unknown things about the
greater world suppressed by
grim disinterest of those fully
infused with the unspoken belief
that beyond intimate borders
of everyday life there are no
revelations of experience
whose beckoning call might
be tempting enough to halt
resistance to exploring the 
unknown. Rural parochialism
Permeates every facet of the
residents' lives, simple facts
of the world beyond of no
conceivable use, extraneous
to their quiet satisfaction in life
that refuses to cross invisible
borders until, inevitably, the
headstones in the cemetery
over countless generations,
hold numbers of residents far
exceeding the living who cling
to their narrow, fulfilling
lives replete with material
poverty, supported by a
deliberate dearth of curiosity
and knowledge, clearly
redundant in communities
committed to existence that
knows nothing whatever of
beyond the great beyond.