Jeff Connelly Poet I do not know?

Sense Or

even 
more so 
today what's 
said must be to what 
whatever society's censors 
say may or may not be 
but a term i dispise as 
being "politically" correct

when 
younger 
i checked myself 
by saying geeze instead 
of jesus and the oh so visual 
wording of h e double toothpicks 
while playing 
pickup sticks

then
the introduction
to pig latin 101 when
something so simple 
seemed like Kaczynski's
written indecipherable diary
but verbally knowing 
no one knew

a linguistic 
magician's
slight of hand
putting the first letter
at the end then adding
an ay so now can you say
under which cup
the new word is

can you
fathom or
imagine the right
before your eyes and
ears what trickery i could
perform as my Mum gasped
me not grasping
she couldn't 

believe
that i
knew that word
but also had used
that word in her house
and now i at the age of
thirty two
she slapped me

after
running
from out of
a backroom
when i so unso
phisticatedly spoke
not as Socrates being
Greek to me said

uckfay

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