Swearing

~ Stephen McGlennon

Because of course.

I may come across as a philistine
See I punctuate with profanity
Although I am fucking erudite and
Extraordinarily bastard wordy

Swearing doesn’t mean that I can’t at all
Communicate with you effectively.
It cannot be bad language if you can
Understand correctly what I’m trying

To get across, it’s all good if you get
Me. It doesn’t mean for one second that
I lack an adequate vocabulary.
Such mores only highlight ones snobbery.

Really you are just being a coward
Hiding behind false sensibility.
What really happened was I made a point
That you weren’t ready for and can’t rejoin.

So you bob and weave and doge each attack
But I’m on to you, it’s courage you lack
If your beliefs are so easily shook
Maybe its them that need another look.

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Published by Stephen McGlennon

Who knows where this will go, if anywhere at all. This is now just going to be the blog of a 48 year old GenX cishet fella from the North of Ireland/Northern Ireland/Ulster (I don’t care). I’l l keep the waving my fists at clouds to a bare minimum. There’ll be poems and playing cards, opinions and all sorts. Some of it will be an attempt to begin a conversation. I’m tolerant of opposing values and opinions to a point. I simply won’t countenance thoughtlessness, abuse, hate or edge lord trolling nonsense. I am extending this little corner of t'internet to include other hobbies, passtimes etc. Mediocre poetry, opinionated essays and dreadful watercolours coming your way.

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