A Journal for Western Man-- Issue II
G. Stolyarov II
Young Johnny carries a Candide to class.
�This perilous infraction will not pass,�
His teacher sternly does declare,
�For if young Johnny reads Voltaire,
He will his classmates all surpass,
Which is monopolizing and unfair.�
So Johnny is into detention sent
And dosed with Ritalin without consent.
�His energy exceeds our charts,�
The school psychiatrist explaining starts,
�Some more, and he�ll begin our dogma to resent.
This drug suppresses Johnny�s interest in the arts.�
But Johnny�s penalty is not complete.
The institution�s weapon policy he did not meet.
Ten thousand activists, with stones held high,
Pacifist rhetoric do at Johnny cry.
�From schools we must all similar books delete.
The corners may well puncture someone�s eye!�
The school spreads pleas for help throughout the land.
A sixties-educated doctor takes the stand,
�A drug in new-age medicine�s defined
As any substance that transforms the mind.
First comes Voltaire, then he will read Ayn Rand,
And he�ll defy the tribal fate which we�d designed!�
The city council meets, policemen does dispatch.
With clubs and pepper spray they do young Johnny catch.
Johnny is jailed for having used a �drug�.
His cell is shared by a malicious thug.
Whose mind did twisted schemes of murder hatch,
The �bleeding hearts� on whom won�t pull the plug.
Then does a miracle young Johnny find.
No longer will he be in jail confined.
A councilor from school the guards addressed.
�Johnny�s a normal boy, but now depressed.
A slacker usually, does but what�s assigned,
By us his further strife will be repressed.�
Big Brother thus did Johnny back to school return.
No longer will the boy for reason yearn.
He�s fashionably clothed. His comrades, too, are such.
They ask, �Wazzup?� He answers, �Nothin� much.�
In class he�s timid, outside loud and stern.
Big Brother grins at John Automaton, his crutch.
