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F This, F That

5/29/2017

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So lately I notice I’ve been saying “Fuck!” a lot.
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It’s not like I didn’t ever not say it. But I always used it sparingly, a master chef sprinkling pepper on a gourmet dish for taste. Too many f words spoil the broth and all that. When it’s used as noun, verb, adjective and adverb in a single sentence. It becomes, well, fucking monotonous and suggests a rather limited vocabulary. Overuse dilutes the power it wields and becomes cartoonish, much like, well, the word ‘like.’

And then November 8 happened and I began to say “Fuck!” a lot more. And so did my friends. When asked to weigh in, their responses were, “Fuck, yeah,” “Fuckin-A!!!!” “Fuck, I’m so guilty of this!” “I’ve been saying it a lot more since a certain election.” “Fuck, yes!"


In other words, we’re not just overseasoning; we’ve unscrewed the container and poured all the pepper contents out. Burn.

All I have to do is see a certain orange buffoon and it spews out, the verbal complement to the knee jerk response elicited by a reflex hammer. Even if I don’t watch the news, it’s there, blustering in social media, bloviating in videos, and yes, I refer to the buffoon as “it” because to assign a pronoun like ‘him’ would suggest human qualities to some degree, which all evidence indicates it lacks. I largely refer to those who voted for it as “it” too because that vote said all I need to know about their lacking qualities of decency and open mindedness and kindness. They blew it. And we, as individuals, as a nation, are suffering mightily daily. Hourly even.
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Fuck it!
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    Susan Israel

    Susan Israel has published fiction in Other Voices, Hawaii Review, and Vignette and she has written for magazines, websites, and newspapers, including Glamour, Girls Life, Ladies Home Journal and The Washington Post.  Susan Israel is a graduate of Yale University.

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