Caution - Potentially Objectionable Content Ahead! You have now been warned-
Poo Is In You
Poo is in you
it’s a smelly fact but true-
You eat your food in
through your Mouth
And when your body’s done with it
it comes out from your South
It smells and tastes delicious
when it’s sitting on your plate
And stinks and smells atrocious
when it meets its final fate
It moves through a conveyor belt
as it travels North to South
And it somehow turns from food to poop
and then makes its exit out
Poo is in you
it’s a smelly fact but true
And have I managed now to tell you
what you already knew?
Here, the Moody Stoplight Trio are in on the question as to what constitutes valid Creative Expression, and what constitutes Obscenity. "Go" or "No Go"?
While Freedom of Expression is protected under the First Amendment (of the U.S. Constitution), Obscenity is not.
OK, now the Uncensored Version of the poem (yes, the above version is a slightly “sanitized” or “deodorized” version of the Original):
Shit Is In You
Shit is in you
it’s a smelly fact but true-
You eat your food in
through your Mouth
And when your body’s done with it
it comes out from your South
It smells and tastes delicious
when it’s sitting on your plate
And stinks and smells atrocious
when it meets its final fate
It moves through a conveyor belt
as it travels North to South
And it somehow turns from food to poop
and then makes its exit out
Shit is in you
it’s a smelly fact but true
And have I managed now to tell you
what you already knew?
Is It Obscene Poetry or Is It Art?
OK, does the above “Uncensored Version” of the poem manage – IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS POST – to get past the Miller Test, (which is also called the Three Prong Obscenity Test) ? ***Personally, I THINK IT DOES, otherwise I would not have published it here!***
And now the (somewhat more) Scientific Version of the poem, which uses the Proper word for the smelly Stuff:
Feces Are In You
Feces are in you
it’s a smelly fact but true-
You eat your food in
through your Mouth
And when your body’s done with it
it comes out from your South
It smells and tastes delicious
when it’s sitting on your plate
And stinks and smells atrocious
when it meets its final fate
It moves through a conveyor belt
as it travels North to South
And it somehow turns from food to poop
and then makes its exit out
Feces are in you
it’s a smelly fact but true
And have I managed now to tell you
what you already knew?
There are times when something cannot be easily defined, but you just know it when you see it (or smell it)...
This image satirizes a couple of famous quotes in context – This One by Shakespeare , and This One by a Supreme Court justice .
So, could it be that “Art is anything you can get away with”? Go Google…