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F*** U

Marlo Swagemeier

“Watch you mouth!”
“Not in front of the kids!”
“Don’t use that sort of language!”

My favorite word is a no no word
It’s a magical word
It’s one of the only words I know that can be used as a noun, verb and adjective?
There are only four letters in this word
Yet it has power
Some people don’t like my favorite word

They say
“Watch your mouth!”
I’m sorry sir I don’t remember you having any authority over my body
I’m sorry sir the least you can do is provide me a miroir because otherwise I don’t think watching my own mouth is going to be very plausible
I’m sorry sir if I have to watch my mouth the least you can do is taste your eyes

They say
“Not in front of the kids”
I’m sorry ma’am i don’t know these kids
  if you would like to police their environmental intake maybe you should take your kids elsewhere
I’m sorry ma’am if you drop a box on your toe of your kids are you going to remember to say fudge nuggets jiminy cricket
I’m sorry ma’am have your kids not walked in on you and your husband doing this very word

They say
“Don’t use that language!”
Which language? The english one... is that the language that offends you
Or is it just certain words
Do you get to pick which parts of the langue I get you use
Last time I checked you weren’t god
So why don’t you shut your f-

Sorry this is a public place
I don’t want to offend anyone with my self expression
I didn’t mean to be vulgar
I didn’t want my words to be ugly
I didn’t mean for my thoughts to wrong

So I’m sorry but if I may just say one last thing before I go
And I say this with the greatest amount of respect and I really hope no one feels personally offended or verbally attacked but...

Fuck
You

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