“Abortion,” “abort,” “rape,” “bullet,” “ammo,” “drunken,” “drunkard,” “abduct,” “arouse,” “Aryan,” “murder,” and “virginity” are but a few of the 14,000 words on Apple's kill list.

Word Police

Whatever happened to the middle name?

Most websites have shunned it from the game.

When I try to type my middle initial in,

my entry is rejected for the period (.) sin.

And since when has the hyphen (-),

been replaced by the dash (——)?

They have different uses,

and I'm not just slinging hash.

And Microsoft has created,

the greatest of sins.

Misusing the apostrophe (‘),

with more out's [wrong!] than ins.

The MS dictionary has banned many,

commonly used great words.

Where I used to take a shit,

I'm advised to take a ship,

by the supersensitive code nerds.

And since when can't I,

use a god's word in vain?

Doesn't the computer know,

that all gods are not the same?

My Dragon dictation is very smart,

but fails to listen to some of my words.

It has the spelling of many rare places,

but refuses to let me describe my turds.

Like movies and video games,

with no end to violence and gore,

sex is being banned from the write place,

as some pariah, like never before.

We must rebel, good writers all!

Claim our right to free speech back,

from all the self-righteous coders,

restricting our freedom like a hack.

The machines must never mimic,

the worst of collective mind.

Big brother may be with us,

but he should be broad-minded and kind.

Copyright 2018 © Ronald W. Hull

12/6/18

You can read this poem on my website here.