Untitled (“Oh, dear, what can the matter be?”)

When

4:20 PM on April 20, 2013

Where

The State House
Concord, New Hampshire

Why

Marijuana prohibition has gone on long enough. The United States jails more people than any other nation—both in absolute numbers and as a proportion of the population—and the vast majority of those people are in jail for the victimless, consensual “crime” of consuming a substance that the government doesn’t approve of. Numerous attempts to pass legislation relaxing marijuana prohibition have failed. An additional tactic is clearly called for.

Some people attend the rallies to protest the current state of affairs. Some people smoke at the rallies as an act of civil disobedience. And some people have simply given up caring what the government’s “laws” say they must not do.

Untitled (“Oh, dear, what can the matter be?”)

Mon, 2010-01-18 23:13 -0400 — Sam A. Robrin

In response to the arrest in Manchester for an activist brushing against a police officer
Sung in a mincing, childish voice, more or less to “Oh, dear, what can the matter be?”

Oooh! Oooh! I’ve been assaulted!
Bad boy! That man is faulted!
He… touched… the Prrresence Exalted!
Somebody save me from him!

Oooh! Oooh! I’m threatened so much!
That nasty man came so close he could touch!
How… could… Free Staters send such
A scary bad man after me?

I enact disproportionate retribution
For soiling my delicate constitution.
That’s so important, it invalidates
The meaningless one of the United States.

I’d deal with this case like a man, but I can’t—he’s
Part of this huge gang of fierce vigilantes.
I’m already wetting the lacy pink panties
I wear underneath the blue serge.

He’s off the street and I’m safer now, but
They need me to handle some dangerous nut.
I could get a hangnail, a bruise, or a cut!
Better pretend I don’t hear.

I’m so important, I save you from crooks.
That 8-year-old girl coming home from school looks
Like there’s a nail file stashed in her books!
Kick her down onto the ground.

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