Ooooo yeah! How we learn to self-censor, perhaps. One thing I learned
from workshopping twenty years ago?--I didn't have to write "fuck" as
the only adjective available to me. I DID get to expand my internal
vocabulary. It was a motherfucking treat to learn that.
ken
On 10/8/2014 4:43 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> LOCAL
>
> in my local
> little poetry group
> South London leafy
> all net curtains
> cul-de-sacs
> so genteel
> so middle class
> where if
> anyone dared
> to write a word
> in a poem
> stronger than
> say
> 'damn'
> or 'blast'
> they all
> start to roll their eyes
> start to tut tutter
> maybe titter
> soon witter
> so embarrassed
> so fuck them!
>
>
> pmcmanus
> r605
> dedicated to Andy
>
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