The Hamlet Project

Fie is awfully fun to say
Especially if it’s felt as “Fuck”
Or meant.
O, fie. O, fuck.
Fuck, Demetrius, Fuck!
Fie, fie.
I may just start replacing the “fucks” in my vocabulary with “Fie.”
It could give me the satisfaction of cursing
Without the potential for getting me fired were I to accidentally
Say it in the classroom. I never really slip there –
But in a puppet workshop for 2nd graders, in an attempt to say two words at once,
It came out “Fuck its” instead of “puppets”
Luckily, because they were 2nd grade Catholic school kids, they didn’t notice.
I wonder what I do to filter language like this – what sieve is in place in my brain
That allows me to switch code from one situation to the next.
Fie, fie, I do not know.