Washroom. Once loo,
Now restroom-
The language keeps
Getting sanitized.
Everything must be
Palatable, softened,
Perfumed, polite.
Crippled, handicapped,
Disabled. Now,
Specially abled.
Who rinses these
Words in glitter?
Fired. Laid off.
Downsized.
Talent restructuring.
Servant. Maid.
Housekeeping.
Domestic help.
And now-
Home assistant.
Like we're gonna
Treat them better
With new names.
Bombing. Airstrike.
Precision strike,
Collateral damage.
Ah yes,
Surgical strike.
The political correctness,
To feeds the masses
The right kind of words
To sell the wrong
Kind of truth.
The politeness in
Our words that
Hide our intensions-
"Little boy".
"Laughing Buddha".
Guns painted in pink.
Violence rebranded
As revolution.
The facts strategically
Placed in the gaps
Of headlines-
For the appeal of
The front page-
Cruelty now has a
Smile.