Roaches And Roosters And Cocks Poem by Aniruddha Pathak
Roaches And Roosters And Cocks
Fair words that boast of lawful birth
With no sex-stained biased image,
When made to look like white-robed sage,
But such is man's misguided mirth….
Cock-ups were jutting fonts in shake
In days of letter-press printing—
A simple font-setting mistake,
Letters lifted up, protruding,
But prudes had problems with plain ‘prick',
Which they changed to ‘goad' double quick,
And Biblical ‘The cock crew thrice',
Changed was to ‘The rooster crew thrice'!
Can tinkered be a sacred book,
For, dirty mind's in devil's lease,
If sacred words of His
Twisted be, rest's easy to cook!
And their kitchens cluttered are with roaches
In place of universal cockroaches!
One can dwell at length on this stuff,
Enough is this to call their bluff.
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Satire | 12.06.13 |
p.s. OOPS! my earlier comment was supposed to start with " -up" : ( I guess someone misplaced the " " . or should i say rooster? ? bri :)
I noticed that but could understand... not like you... but as I said, I enjoy every word of your comment.
-up: " noun informal•British something done badly or inefficiently" Americans have " screw-ups" " The past tense of crow is crowed or crew (Britain, archaic) " " plane" or PLAIN " roach” the last bit of a smoked marijuana cigarette. We Americans can 'take' you fooling [even if we don't understand it]. bri :)
I agree it should be plain and I'll correct it. But then if you think hard, as you do, on second thoughts even plane (as an adjective) makes sense considering the word it qualifies. Yes, you Americans get away with murder.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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5/10/2024 1:23:09 AM # 1.0.0.1119
ha ha! ! ! your Indian PH censors seem to not be as harsh as my American PH censors. YOU got to use " C o c k s" and " c o c k" in your poem, but my (not really " mine" ;) c-o-c-k got deleted from BOTH of my earlier comments. maybe My C-O-C-K was too big? ? bri :)
It is often not the word as such, but how it is used, the context. But I never knew you people are so prude.