(with apologies to John Cooper Clarke)

 

 

Beheadings are acceptable, boobs are bad

the female form’s fantastic but only when it’s clad

we’re blasé about bullying, laissez-faire on lust

but our patriarch goes postal if the news feed shows a bust

sign on, log in, no matter where you look

you’ll never see a nipple on facebook.

 

We’ve made a Faustian pact with our morals as collateral

pictures of breastfeeding? Ugh. Not natural.

You can stick your outrage, stuff your clamour, we

refuse to rehabilitate the mammary

sign on, log in, no matter where you look 

you’ll never see a nipple on facebook.

 

We take no sides when it comes to mutilation

but we’re taking the tit out of titillation

we don’t care if it’s your mother, your girlfriend or your nan

topless is taboo (it doesn’t count if you’re a man)

accuse us of hypocrisy, the decision that we took 

is that you’ll never see a nipple on facebook.

 

Understand that we know best

we’ve ads for breast enhancement but - no breasts

it’s a crazy world where our policy makes sense

where execution passes censorship, but to suckle gives offence

sign on, log in, no matter where you look

you’ll never see a nipple on

never see a nipple on

never see a nipple on facebook.

 

 

 

© Steve Pottinger. 22nd Oct 2013