Reclaiming the 'C' word

Reclaiming the ‘C’ word

Va-gi-na

So clinical, so sterile

Etymologically speaking

Just part of an organ

A sheath for a pork sword

But …

C… C... C…

CUNT

Grose defined in 1785

"a nasty name for a nasty thing"

It’s Proto-Indo-European roots

‘Cu’.

Of goddess lineage; Cunda, Cunnit, Kunti, Kunta,

Of Cow

Of Queen

Of Latin Cuneus \wedge/

To Ken to know

Of Kin, our family

Of feCUNdity

CUNT more than a four letter word

It’s a word with a history.

Which I know and I doubt you do,

So it loses its power when used derogatorily.

To my ears you have just called me a Goddess,

I already knew that.