I Can Think of Much Worse …
Dirtiest 4-Letter Word
written by Naomi Shihab Nye
The Dirtiest 4-Letter Word
is "self" says the sign on a church
and I almost run off the road.
What about Kill? Hate? Rape?
Even "whip" sounds worse than "self"
or might we trie "lies"? Now I remember why
Sunday School gave me a stomach ache.
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Hollie is a rural-born, urban-at-heart, artist, photographer, and writer, dedicated to creating and inspiring with reckless abandon!
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This has always made me wonder, ever since hearing “God first, other people second, and I’m last” at Summer camp one year, if this kind of sentiment has bred a generation of people with compulsion to please everyone, ending up in therapy…