Sometimes I think there oughtta be a law
Against this sort of thing, a statute to
Impose a kind of deferential awe
In everyone. Yet what can statutes do
When manners cannot rightly regulate
The self-behavior of the multitude?
Is it truly a matter for the state
When people are made coarsely, rough and rude,
By their own hands, and those surrounding them?
Of course the breaches of the peace must be
Punished - and the laws indeed condemn
Such criminal deep uncivility,
But lesser actions though unpleasant should
Not be a legislature's livelihood.
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