Angela, O Angela
Don’t call people ‘scum’
Abusive language does no good
Does not help anyone
Perhaps you were playing to the gallery
Safe among your own
Or boosting your street cred
With language so forlorn
But think on this young lady
Bad example to the young
Creates a foul and abusive air
Turns our discourse into dung
The man is a public schoolboy
Never been known to want
Never experienced poverty
Privilege his camp
Jesus said ‘whited sepulcre’
About folk who were corrupt
Strong language powerful image
Its eloquence abrupt
But just to abuse the person
Is a sorry waste of time
Use your language well old girl
Bad language is a crime
Brian Fahy
26 September 2021
Erris Poetry 