As one of the wrinkly-crumblies <br />-W.A.S.P. without the sting - <br />it puzzles me: in poetry, <br />does one good **** really deserve another? <br />fifty years ago - fifty, for ****'s sake - <br />when I was an army cadet <br />some squaddies used it every other word <br />-and since we were in Signals, <br />it ****ing delayed ****ing battle-orders ****ing long enough <br />to ****ing mow down a ****ing platoon... <br /> <br />and longer in ****ing Morse... - - -... <br />and as for ****ing semaphore...makes your ****ing arms flag... <br /> <br />my liberal friends <br />who never admit to shock <br />say 'it shows a.... lack of imagination'; <br />now that's ****ing serious in ****ing poets. <br /> <br />outside the ****ing English-spitting world <br />it must seem ****ing strange <br />that the most-loved ****ing bodily action <br />is used as a ****ing swear-word - <br />what have you ****ers got against ****ing? <br />or is it a term of ****ing praise maybe? <br /> <br />and why still a shock-word <br />amongst you young lot <br />who get a lot more ****ing ****ing than we ever did? Dammit. <br /> <br />Philologically, <br />is it still heard <br />as ****ing onomatopoeic? <br />which makes it pretty near to ****ing S&M I'd say? <br /> <br />could you****ers (whom I love for your interest in poetry <br />I have to say) <br />give me, as a reasonable ****er, <br />a ****ing explanation? <br />it would be ****ing useful <br />poetically <br /> <br />And who the **** is this <br />'American realist' poet Charles F***offski <br />whom you admire so much, anyway?<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/call-that-ing-poetry/
