genitalia

O genitalia

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You are fantastically, semantically lewd.

We can murmer your name,

Shout squeal or exclaim it

But however we say it we cannot conceal that

The reference therein is RUDE.

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So how can it be that you roll off the tongue?

Each syllable sounded with the grace that becomes it,

You flavour the voicebox and resonate deep.

Seductively intimate and articulate,

So vulgar when read yet so lovely when sung.

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Four consonants cupped by such shapely vowels,

Make phonetic delight meet an untimely end.

The sound may be sweet but it compensates not

For the referent truth, the fact you denote

The unspeakable bits to the south of the bowels.