I was going to write f*** in a poem today
but decided against it because I didn't want to offend anyone.

I'm Canadian, I'm polite.
by saying I'm Canadian, I'm polite, I'm not implying nonCanadians
are impolite, I didn't mean that

but I am Canadian
I'm peaceful

ha
well

not that you're not
I just meant...

we're nice but
not that you're not nice

just

umm


I think I'll shut this fucking poem down right now
before anyone gets hurt

Jesus! did I call this a poem?
I didn't mean that
I didn't mean poem...

Smiling here Scott, I really like the meandering circular journey of this.  Thanks for the read.

Very good reading, VERY funny ending, Scott! Tom

I am also from the not so Frozen North
and I love this
sorry, really love this!

Stella

hey
thanks for the views and comments.

Neil Young swears!

:-)





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Sorry for f**king up your thread, Scott!

hysterical, Scott.  you've done it again, just being yourself.  love it.

Peter

Yes, Neil Young swears
but I chaulk that up to his stint in California
and listening to Crosby, Stills and Nash banter.


Cheryl
that is a beautiful comment, thanks!

On this whole issue of Canadian foul language, one need only watch South Park: The Movie  with its incredibly true anthem "Blame Canada!"

It's odd.
I really don't know how outsiders see us.
 



 

We don't.

(Just kidding.)

((Half.))

 

I was going to say that.
I'm surprised we sparked a song at all.
Actually incognito is the way to go.

That was what provided the humor of the foul-mouthed Canadian menace. Seriously, as far as I gather, Canadians are thought to be a sensible, progressive people living happily in a successful country. What do they do there besides love hockey and endure cold? No one down here has the faintest idea. We do seem to like Canadian comedians, though.

Yeah, comedians are our third biggest export, second being general malaise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_comedians

is the biggest export Leonard Cohen?

:)

the thread was as funny as the poem - xo M

Hi,

Clever with the circularity.

I just wondered whether you could end with the word "fuck" to make it finish precisely where it began?

Oh, possibly worth mentioning: I wouldn't have known what the initials in the title were for, except other people's comments mentioned it...

Ian

thanks guys and girl.

i love making Silent Lotus smile
Ian, something to look into, thanks

Michelle
wacky but fun

Off to the Northwest Territories, Scott!
Elizabeth Hay wrote a book "Canadians in New York" some years back that more or less purposefully explores Canadianness.
Then she moved back to Ottawa, wrote the wonderful "A Student of Weather" and "Late Nights on Air" and became too busy and famous (Canadian famous) to write to me anymore after I helped paint her apartment while she was in labor and "too busy" to help. Typical Canadian.
Tom

NWT?
lucky, (we have the biggest backyard.)

...and please accept my apology on Elizabeth's behalf
we aren't mean, we're indifferent.
 
(actually I live in the Ottawa area.
I'll see if I can find one of those books.)


...and thanks for the pick, whomever was so kind.
(I'm assuming Tom. not that the other editors aren't kind... etc.)

Much, much, much enjoyed!

Another one laughing here!

LOL  :oP

Deliciously self-effacing and progressively desperate.

thanks for allowing me such indulgence.
:)

I'm confident that each day will be brightened for me by seeing this on the front page for a week, so there it goes.

Cheers

milner

would you look at that.
wild, thanks!

this is fucking ridiculous and cool. 
an excellent little trip. 
thoroughly enjoyed!!!!

tiko

Congrats Scott.  How lovely to see a Canadian on the front page.   Must be a first   ;-)

congrats, Scott!! Tom

Nice new front page - I like it!  M

Milner, I have never objected to any front page pick before, and on its merits I certainly have no objection here, but put this together with the Canadiens' hockey playoff victory over Pittsburgh and I'm afraid Canada as a whole may just get a little too uppity. They'll want full independence next. Tom

Stella was, I think, the first Canadian on the front page, Peter.

Tom, the USA will be demanding full independence from the UK next, dammit.

Rule Britannia

milner

Great to see this here.  Just read it aloud to Mark, (my husband). He laughed, at just the right place.

awesome to see this here, Scott.  very cool pick.

thanks for the comments
it seems Canadians aren't the only nice people.

scott a warm congratulations on your front page selection!  your conversational voice and step down the stanza style shines here, especially the humor!  keep up the giggling, loner pen, i have been enjoying both in your other current selections.  lawrence

Scott, congratulations on making the first page.
I don't come on here much anymore because the
subject matter is too contemporary for my
old fashioned taste - for that I offer no apologies.

I love satire, and this poem of yours is a great example.
You are a gentleman and a fine poet..  My take
is that you think like me that vulgarity
does not belong in poetry. 

I also love your rich sense of humor.

God bless you,
Marion

I love this.

great to see this on the Front Page, Scott

thanks again everyone.
if it brought a smile; case closed.