Life today a silent game of Russian Roullette
Masked, gloved, unarmed a trip to a public
Place a sneeze, a cough, a bit of smegma
And Covid19 silently end all to Life.
Can I say BLEEP on your show?
"No, that's not allowed."
Why not? It's not a bad word.
I'd think I could say it numerous times,
Like, BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP.
"Stop that, it'll just be bleeped."
Well then, can I say smegma
Or at least shorten it to smeg?
"I don't know what that is."
It's is a lot worse than BLEEP
I'll tell you that.
"Isn't it just a made-up swear word
Used by Lister on Red Dwarf?"
As point of fact it's not
I wonder how they got away with it
For so long
When I can't even say BLEEP.
"Then what is smegma precisely?"
Roughly the male equivalent
Of female sootikins.
Can I say sootikins on tv?
"Sounds harmless enough."
Great.
L'Origine du monde
smegma musk odors of clit
pervade my night sky
L'Origine du monde, the first realistic painting of a vulva in Western art (Oil painting by Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet 1866, Paris: Musée d'Orsay )
"I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any régime except the régime of liberty."(Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet)
©rajat kanti chakrabarty
16 December 2014