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
Copyright © Jeff Connelly | Year Posted 2020
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