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Finding a place for profanity in poetry
Article ToolsWhy Not? Finding a place for profanity in poetry too much for the elite to comprehend, that this is what our world is faced with? This world of ours is coming to a world of big cities, all connect one way or the other, some even called sin cities, such as the city of Sodom and Gomorra, and they say they are worried about a little profanity in poetry? Just watch your TV sets,... listen to the news channels, and watch advertisements,... not to mention the programming. Now if you were writing a poem to be read in church,... I say definitely leave out the profanity, or you just may be banished by your congregations hypocritical society. I do think that was one of the problems of Rembrandt, the artist, one of his big down fall, when he didn't and couldn't for other reasons, marry his mistress, when she carried and had his child.
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