Place Names the Name

(formerly Old World Undertow)

There was me
My mother my wife
Our sons & daughters–
Set out on this trip together
To recoil the umbilical
Across the ocean
In & out of hours
Back to the place from whence
The family got its dam-ned name.

Bertie Baker earnt his appellation
Cause his paw’s paw’s
Paw’s paw’s paw’s paw’s paw
Cooked the village Staff o’ Life
i.e. made like a bread truck
& hauled buns.

Likewise Callie Cooper’s ancestor
Did summat or other with barrels
While the Woodwards kept the forest
& the Millers ground the flour. 
 
But just let yr great great
Great great great great
Great great great great
Grandpater fuck one sheep…

No but seriously forks
If yer at all interested
Where our clannish fam
Got its mundane moniker
One need look no further
Than the hamlet of Nobdy
In the County Nowhere
Where twas claimed
Some mariner buried his oar
After having lied to a cyclops
& massmurdered
A bunch of unwanted houseguests.

Given the circumstances
We have remained Anonymous
Forevermore,
Safe as houses in the 
Hostile Witness Protection Program.