[Newspoetry] Swearing

[DL Emerick]

Swearing...
"nothing is more deadly than a person who is too enraged for expletives" --
September 20, 2005
Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore 
By NATALIE ANGIER
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/science/20curs.html?incamp=article_popular_4


The Senate wants to rein in free speech;
it offends those who think censors rule.
But all the swearing I ever learned
was taught by my friends and family.

I learned root words the natural way:
damn, hell, shit, piss, fuck, cunt, dick (or prick),
breast, vagina, penis, and so on.

Dirty words have their own society.
You learn when you can use naughty words,
how to throw them like stones at others,
how to add color to your bland speech.

Swearing exposes our gravest fears,
our fixations that may obsess us.

The Senate should follow new science,
and not practice some old religion.