Admonitions from the Editor of The Southern Christian Monitor
Good gracious, sir can you not mend your pertinent demeanor?
Clean up your language, cease your slurs. Find language that is cleaner!
When you speak, why must you be such a surly gent?
For once why don’t you try to say something we can print?
Your thoughts are fine. It’s just the words with which you choose to state them.
It simply is your word choice that makes us excoriate them.
As my southern mama used to say, “For goodness sakes, y’all,
if you can’t say it politely, don’t say anything at all!”
Disclaimer: There is to my knowledge no such publication as The Southern Christian Monitor. This poem is pure fiction, prompted by the prompt words!!!
Prompt words today are gracious, slur, pertinent, mend and print. Image by Roman Kraft on Unsplash.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Well said!
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I bet a majority of moms said the same thing….
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Excellent use of prompts.
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Thanks, Dolly. I was in a bit of a quandry for a while with this one and then just decided to follow where it led, sentence by sentence…
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It led to a very amusing poem.
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Well it’s quite the creative use for the prompts!
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