What The F____ Is Next? Poem by Roger Gerald Hicks

The dictionary (which
abandonned Gestapo
enforcement of English)
added the word WTF!
actually, not a word,
just exclamation like "gun"
(which means someone
has authority to kill) .

WTF doesn't define an
astonishing invention like
T.V, nor a dreaded disease
like T.B. nor a clever app
like Cme. but shocked
surprise; inquisition;
rareification, irritation.
(a certain breathless
equivalent to what two
geese
guarding the perimeter
utter to startle the flock) .

WTF may never have 373
unique meanings like f___
itself, nor will it be used to
make one-word paragraphs
comprised off___.WTF is
made of the 4th and 7th last
letters of the alphabet, plus
the 6th.But no one would
ever shout 476 when a hot
dog splashed into his coke,
although itmakes a cool
personal ID number.

Librarians might think WTF
when glimpsing WTF in the
dictionary but few mothers
would punish or discipline
sprouts for yelling it, not with
language children and mothers
exchange daily.

WTF entered American
"officially" in 2015. Chinese
symbol-like, its meaning is
universally understood-
even in Paris where the Matra
Linqua is guarded by a fortress
sturdy as the Maginot Line.