The Digger Papers (August, 1968)
Page Fourteen
Take a Cop to Dinner Cop
a Dinner to Take a Cop Dinner Cop a Take
      
  
    Mr. Answer Man 
    what is 
    a weapon 
    worse 
    ten times 
    worse, 
    than the 
    Hydrogen 
    Bomb? | 
    Why a cunt 
    which is 
    ten times 
    larger 
    than the largest 
    cock 
    extant, 
      mickey. | 
    Degoutante, 
    said mickey 
    kissing the cops 
    to hedge the bet. | 
   
 
Take a cop to dinner: 
Racketeers take cops to dinner with payoffs. 
Pimps take cops to dinner with free tricks. 
Dealers take cops to dinner with free highs. 
Business takes cops to dinner with graft. 
Unions and Corporations take cops to dinner with post-retirement jobs. 
Schools and Professional Clubs take cops to dinner with free tickets to athletic events
and social affairs. 
The Catholic Church takes cops to dinner by exempting them from religious duties. 
The Justice Department takes cops to dinner with laws giving them the right to do almost
anything. 
The Defense Department takes cops to dinner by releasing them from all military
obligations. 
Establishment newspapers take cops to dinner by propagating the image of the friendly,
uncorrupt, neighborhood policeman. 
Places of entertainment take cops to dinner with free drinks, and admission to shows. 
Merchants take cops to dinner with discounts and gifts. 
Neighborhood Committees and Social Organizations take cops to dinner with free discussions
offering discriminating insights into hipsterism, black militancy, and drug culture. 
Cops take cops to dinner by granting them immunity to prosecution for misdemeanors and
anything else they can get away with. 
      Cops take themselves to dinner by inciting riots. 
      
        And so, if you own anything or you don't take a cop to dinner
        this week and feed his power to judge, prosecute and brutalize the
        streets of your city. 
        Note: Gourmet George Metesky would remind everyone not to
        make the mistake of Arnold Schuster, who served the right course at the
        wrong time. 
       
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