More Insults 'Wanted
I'm dismayed by the current decline in the use of invective, That invaluable corrective For sin, pomposity, rectitude, and, more than all, For this mould-growth of tolerance, muffl:ng our mouths like a pall.
Gripes ! aren't we kind : I couldn't write this of the miners, I mean they might mind ; I mustn't say that of the farmers or this of the Yanks ;
If anyone kicks me, it's current good form to say " thanks " ! Toleration intolerable !—cowardly, lying and weak. We've gulped such a plum of forbearance we barely can speak.
Is it good for the nation that loafers are called " absentees " ?
" Agricultural subsidies " never referred to as squeeze ? That religions (one thinks of " de mortuis ....") mayn't be attacked ?
That slumps are " recessions," bad workers " redundant " not
sacked That rotters and rackets and wreckers, ramps, rubbish and rips Get by without rudely articulate scorpions and whips ?
Lord ! Let's be slightly less " social," more healthily tribal ; If quite so pale margarine-yellow, not so law-of-libel. gut feel a thing's hell, let's call the thing hell—and not Hades. Let's stop being such perfect ladies.
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