Thursday, May 14, 2009

Puff the Magic Dragon debunker

[From an unpublished novel, c.2005]


"What's your point, Tracy? Should we sit around and talk about whether 'Puff the Magic Dragon' was about marijuana, now? It wasn't. So the dragon's named Puff and the kid's named Paper, so what, I mean, the kid grows up and the dragon sadly slips into his cave, so is the point then that all kids eventually have to grow up and leave behind childish things like marijuana, and that this makes marijuana sad? Is that it, Tracy?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

"'Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave.' Poor marijuana. Marijuana is so lonely now that the pot-heads have all grown up."


[They say stoned people think everyone's stoned and everything's about marijuana. Skepticism & critical thought, folks: have a little! Q.v.]

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