Profanity

PROFANITY

                                       Did you know that the use of profanity
                                       Dates all the way back to the start of humanity?

                                       Passed down through time and generations,
                                       Across the waters, through all the nations---

                                       The compact vehicle in which we ride,
                                       That only small minds can fit inside---

                                       Its user lacking the imagination
                                       To give something an original presentation.

                                       From the lowly street bums to upper society,
                                       All men use it to vent their anxiety.

                                       Can we stop a language from being precocious
                                       By forbidding the words that sound atrocious?

                                       Ban the obscenities! But others will take their place,
                                       And new dirty words are still a disgrace.

                                       It seems like an insect resistant to spray,
                                       Mutating itself and cascading away.

                                       I guess the curses we'll all have to live with,
                                       And hope the Almighty above will forgiveth.

---Sandra Hookham
---(horsetrainer)