The Land of the Dope

Come visit the land of the dope

Where a person can be helped to croak

Just sign a piece of paper

And you can be sent to meet your Maker

Here in the land of the dope

Come visit the land of the dope

A land where pot is legally smoked

You can buy it here and there

And its fumes fill the air

It stinks in the land of the dope

Come visit the land of the dope

Be careful you don’t get groped

By a “rock star” and a “laddie”

That allegedly grabs bodies

Here in the land of the dope

Come visit the land of the dope

Where it’s easy to elope

Where people march naked

And the same sex get mated

Here in the land of the dope

Come visit the land of the dope

Where there is plenty of soap

A land that is sunny and “clean”

And promotes the obscene

Here in the land of the dope

Come visit the land of the dope

Where people are trying to cope

Where there are multiple genders

And it’s very hard to remember

Who’s who in the land of the dope

Come visit the land of the dope

Where people try not to mope

Millions of their tax dollars are given away

Without them having a say

But hey, this is the land of the dope

Come visit the land of the dope

Where many are trying to cope

Hundreds of thousands need food banks

Are they ruled by a silly mountebank?

Here in the land of the dope

Come visit the land of the dope

Where many have no hope

There are thousands living on the streets

And many others cannot afford houses because prices are too steep

Come see, and visit the land of the dope

Come visit the land of the dope

A land that gives some people “hope”

Many were told to come in a welcoming tweet

Now thousands are illegally coming to fill the streets

And coming to stay in the land of the dope

Come visit the land of the dope

Where illegals are put up in hotels

But the country’s homeless are less swell

They live on the streets

On hard dirt or concrete

Still, this is the land of the dope

Come visit the land of the dope

And don’t just say, “nope”

This is a sunny land

Where perversity is grand

Because this is the land of the dope

Stephen J. Gray

November 19, 2018.