But, Soft, What Zucchini Through Yonder Window Breaks?

Bob Payne
2 min readSep 10, 2021

By Bob Payne

Image by Michael Chiara on Unsplash

Every time I read Colin Nissan’s McSweeny’s classic, “It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers,” I ask myself if other notable works, such as Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, and Charlotte’s Web, would be funnier if their authors, too, had occasionally used some variation of the word fuck.

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Bob Payne

Author of recently published 142-country memoir, Escape Clauses — Getting Away With a Travel Writing Life. Has written for Slackjaw, The Haven, Muddyum.