Good Baptist Boy
Down at the hospital you’re
not supposed to swear.
I mean, they don’t just disapprove;
they motha-freakin’ flip.
But a person I love is
dying here, I say.
Doesn’t matter, they say;
swearing upsets the others
who probably have people dying here also;
If you absolutely
have to swear, they say,
you can go out into the
streets, behind the hospital,
and swear there among the
others who are not swearing in here;
though it wouldn’t surprise us,
they say, if you died out there,
what with all your swearing and all.
| Michael Van Dyke |
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