ffs in poetry

Vulgar is the new humane,
taking the “polite”
assumptions of gender faith and class,
stripping them away
so we can all just be ourselves.

So please
literally for humanity’s sake
fucking swear.
Fucking swear a fucking lot.
Tell a rich person that he
doesn’t matter more
or have a more valid opinion
just because he has a goddamned yacht.

Tell the man standing at the pulpit
that he is a piece of shit
for pretending he can talk
to a monster in the sky
and that if you don’t do what he says
you’re going to burn in a nightmare
after you die.
When he says a spooky ghost told him
you shouldn’t love who you love
you shouldn’t control your own body
tell him to shove a motherfucking cactus
up his motherfucking pee-hole
and then go piss up a rope on the moon.
Fucking swear.
It is our last effective weapon.

If your menstruation is painful,
lay out the situation
in excruciating fucking detail.
People will lay off until you feel better!
If you like butt stuff,
tell the world!
It might help you find
someone who’d like to do butt stuff to you!

If you see a cop being racist,
it doesn’t matter if she has a
fancy car and a murder button at her hip
you tell her
STOP BEATING UP THAT TEENAGE BLACK KID
YOU ARE A FUCKING RACIST DRUNK ON POWER
YOU SHOULD BE CONFINED TO A MENTAL HOSPITAL
FOR FUCKING SOCIOPATHS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
YOU SHOULDN’T BE TRUSTED WITH A DULL FUCKING CRAYON
LEAVE THE KID ALONE
LEAVE THE KID THE FUCK ALONE!

Vulgarity is the last vestige of honesty
that we have left
use it to change the world
use it to SAVE the world
for fuck’s sake
for FUCK’S sake!