Grandpa learned a new word

Alex came back from a day on the farm.
He told me that grandpa learned a new word.
"He was messing with the sprayer
out by the berry patch. It wasn't working.
He called it a bitch."

Sorry to disappoint, Alex.
I'm guessing grandpa knew that word
long before we were born.

Maybe he heard his dad murmur it
under his breath during a calving.

Maybe he saw it on black-and-white TV shows.
Probably not.

Maybe he yelled it as he threw his
football helmet after losing
to a rival on homecoming.

Maybe he said it for the first time
when his prom date dumped him for
his best friend.

Or maybe he heard it from the
captain on that aircraft carrier during
the Korean War.

Sorry Alex, grandpa probably knew that word.
But be thankful that you don't know that word
because bitches are not fun to know.