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The Cuss Bowl
author: Prabha Trimurty
category: education
A dissenter of profanity, I put a hex on my darling 9 year olds.
My class of twenty-three angels had an uncanny ability.
To pick up cussing and swearing with alarming frequency.
Mortified by "F"words!" enunciated effortlessly.
"Damn it," "Screw you," being their milder use of sacrilege.
Popular media, and playgrounds, ubiquitously tolerate profanity.
Kids succumb to expletives and grow insensate to swearing.
Emulate, cartoon heroes, who thrive on "taboo" words.
How could I teach kids, hemmed into drift of waning morality?
Albeit tolerating, (more likely ignoring) the usage of profanity.
Pointless, reprimanding innocent kids who are learning?
On the other hand, criticize them, for this impasse.
Feeling challenged, by this transcription of merciless lingo.
My only quick fix, was obliterating, this abysmal language style.
By means of substituting words that are unacceptable.
With a "Nincompoop", "darn it", "nitwit," and "baloney".
Alternatively " batty," "phooey", "dingbats" and "malarkey."
Or, "dimwit," "shoot," "fraud," and "for crying aloud."
Or else "nutty", "blast it", "hogwash" "shoot", and "dense."
Consequence, resulting for voicing objectionable language.
A penalty, a dime, for every blaspheme, into "THE CUSS-BOWL."
Failed to comply, would be steep, ensuing double up the fine.
Consequently, the "CUSS-BOWL" income will be expended.
To delight, the non-cusses with beneficial rewards.
Thanks to my daughter for ingenious easy fix.
Tendency of cussing and swearwords is undoubtedly fading.
Profanity inflation, costing them unquestionable bankruptcy.
"The Cuss-Bowl" is slowly but surely weakening, not making money.
A priceless finale, to the callous addiction of indecorous uproar.
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