Impoverished Moral Thinking

City people, like city
Pigeons, approach novelty
More easily. Selection

Favors the brave in a crowd.
Out in emptier country,
The fearful and reclusive

Appear to be more favored.
Humans, of course, are famous
Among humans for sharing

Notes, so, in your species’ case,
Country mice are well aware
Of city mice novelties,

And express disapproval
In their hinterland mischiefs.
But no one knows what to make

Of the rare and morally
Impoverished reasoning
That brings the occasional

City native out to live
Among the country brethren.
Is this novelty-seeking

Or creeping nativism?
For sure, it’s escapism,
But why escape belonging?