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From: todslone@hotmail.com
To: staff@poems.com
Subject: Poem for Word Coppers Don Selby and Diane Boller
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:04:07 -0500Hi Don Selby and Diane Boller, Poetry Daily,
Are you both part of the Word Police, as I suspect? If so, the following was written for you and with this email (and your response or non-response) will be published in the next issue of The American Dissident! Vive la Liberte de parole!!!
Sincerely,
G. Tod Slone, Editor,
The American Dissident, a 501c3 Nonprofit Journal of Literature, Democracy, and Dissidence
Free Speech in Peril: Notes on Stage One Censorship
Conformist journalists, academics, poets, professors,
political hacks, librarian marms, and others
have been replacing FUCK with the F-bomb,
as if somehow the word were highly dangerous,
yet FUCK is as common as it gets, as in
FUCK you, FUCK me, and FUCK it all.
Now, was that really so FUCKING painful?
Say FUCK in front of the wrong cop, however, like I did
and end up in jail for a whole FUCKING day, then
a month later standing before some FUCKING judge,
who, against the FUCKING prosecutor’s wishes,
of course dismisses the whole FUCKING case.
We need to rise above the easily offended
and hammer their censor protectors
by using, now and then, prohibited words
like FUCK, NIGGER, CUNT, DYKE, WETBACK,
QUEER, FAGGOT and MUTHAFUCKA, though
we ought not use them to insult the weak,
but rather to shine a light on freedom of speech
and make the self-evident point that sticks and
FUCKING stones will break my FUCKING bones,
but FUCKING names will never FUCKING harm me.
The word FUCK is on the endangered vocabulary list,
thus I’ll say it whenever I FUCKING can to help preserve it.
The word FUCK represents freedom,
my FUCKING freedom,
so please, please don’t FUCK with it!
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