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Posted by Atticus on December 9, 2004, at 23:05:26
Warm Glow
The Subcommittee
Had no pity,
And it figured
*ss would crack.
He named names,
He laid the blame,
Left F*ck and Sh*t
Stabbed in the back.
Motherf*cker
Just felt suckered,
Said they’d been played,
This thing was wack.
And humble P*ssed
Was also dissed
As Senate censure
Brought him flack.The hearing’s chairman,
An unfair man,
Waved a list
He said would show
All the obscenity
That must be remedied,
All the profanity
That must go.
Folks must be saved
From words depraved
Enough to bring
The nation low,
So books burned,
Each one in turn,
And Congress enjoyed
The warm glow.
-- Atticus
Posted by Jai Narayan on December 10, 2004, at 7:19:48
In reply to poem ... Warm Glow, posted by Atticus on December 9, 2004, at 23:05:26
Okay, I could start guessing:
but I am surprised at how many times there have been censuring.
This sounds more like a religious/cultural censuring....
Lenny Bruce?
loved the ending wrap up warm glow.....We had the brief open period during the 80’s-to now?
It feels like we are going backwards again.The radio news just gave me a heads up about the consolidation bill for the CIA etc. there are issues tucked into the bill about police having more power, less need for probable cause to wire tap, etc. Eroding our rights as private citizens.
Can I say that I am thrilled that you are back on PB writing.
I think you are my artistic muse...
everything seems brighter with you back.
My words come to life and so do others.sorry I haven’t been around, the fire has consumed my attention.
SoooOOOOWELCOMEBACKATTICUSOOOOooo!
jAi
Posted by Atticus on December 10, 2004, at 10:52:46
In reply to Re: poem ... Warm Glow.. Atticus, Atticus, Atticus, posted by Jai Narayan on December 10, 2004, at 7:19:48
Thanks, Jai. Everywhere I look, I see certain elements of society attempting a blue-nosed, neo-Victorian clamp-down on anything and everything that's out of sync with their sensibilities and personal moral code. The subcommittee chairman waving the piece of paper was meant to be suggestive of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (an endless source of embarrassment to us Irish folks) and a tactic he frequently used during his Commie witch-hunts in the 1950s. It's amazing that Lenny Bruce was challenging these linguistic "taboos" half a century ago, followed by George Carlin, and here we are, still afraid of "dirty" words when it's not these aggregations of letters that are dirty -- it's our minds that are dirty and obsessed with certain words. Why can I say "have sex" but not "f*ck"? Why can I say "poop" but not "sh*t"? It seems so bloody inane to me. Just utterly arbitrary. And then, of course, there's Dr. Bob's "War On '@ss'ing" on PB. You, Susan, and Phil are the three most recent victims. Anyway, thought I'd have a bit of fun and turn the forbidden words into anthropromorphic beings caught up in the equivalent of a McCarthyite crusade. Ta. ;) Atticus
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