She looks like a hooker, regular tart, <br />Owes her face less to nature than cosmetic art. <br />'Prostitute' or 'loose woman' are terms that might irk her, <br />So in sanitized speech she's now called a sex worker. <br /> <br />He's 'person of size', he's no longer fat, <br />These sick-making terms tell us all where we're at. <br />And if I am tiny, the folks must be taught, <br />I'm 'verti'c'lly challenged' - its rude to say 'short' <br /> <br />Met a miserable queer in the park one fine day, <br />He said, 'I am sad, its no fun being gay, <br />'I'm a 'person of colour', I do like to think, <br />But they might not accept that because I am pink.' <br /> <br />The young say you are crinkly but the phrase has now shifted, <br />Instead of just 'old', You're 'chronologic'lly gifted'. <br />Oxymoronic speech sugars meaning so nicely, <br />This freedom's intolerance curbs meaning precisely. <br /> <br />Now when Nature calls and I look for a loo, <br />Do I 'rest' in the 'Rest Room', or is there some new <br />Euphemism that's right, when I cure constipation; <br />Will I really get comfort from that 'Comfort Station'? <br /> <br />We've got to the stage we can't say what we mean, <br />'Politic'lly correct' no more covers the scene, <br />There's a new phrase for that now, if you can believe <br />'Appropriately inclusive, should make your gut heave.<br /><br />Bridgid Patrick<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/politically-correct/
