At the movies, don’t yell fire.
Not a chance that it’s judged free speech.
Don’t shed all of your attire
On the sidewalk. It's a big breech.
First Amendment rights don't include
Sins like these no longer argued.
Other forms, though, of expression—
Video games grown more violent—
High Court justices this session,
Weighing, find themselves more pliant.
Kids perhaps with adult minders,
Might watch deaths in sausage grinders?
Maybe, but—let's take a lesson
Drawn from drug discoverers' shelves
Many bravely tested theirs on,
Not the sufferers, but themselves.
Hippocrates also advised
First do no harm—words to be prized.
Legislate that such game makers
First must try them on their children,
Who, if they turn barfing quakers,
Doom the product to a dungeon.
People seen ground into mincemeat
Threaten any budding aesthete.
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