Beware the Poetry
Part Three

 

 

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Say It NOW

by Johnny Crescendo
with photos by Brenda Prager.

Disabled people are allowed to say
spastic

cripple

handicapped

mongoloid

difficult

tragic

but they're not allowed to say fuck.

 

Disabled people are allowed to say

help

please

thank you

thank you, thank you

thank you very much

but they're not allowed to say fuck.

 

Disabled people are allowed to say

victim

brave

helpless

special

little

severely

chronically

profoundly

and vegetable

but they're not allowed to say fuck.

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Click here to link to a catalog website where sex is actively encouraged for all people with disabilities.

Click here for Beware The Poem, Part Four

This poem is copyright Johnny Crescendo, 1994.

The photos are copyright Brenda Prager, 1994. The fellow staring at you right now is San Francisco playwright and actor Neil Marcus.

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