"Wha'sa --hic-- Matter?" (part 1)

She sat in a straight-back chair near the doctor's desk in  his small office.  The doctor stood beside her in his white smock, holding a 3-foot steel ruler in his right hand at his side.  "Wha'sa --hic-- matter, madam?" he asked.  " 'Scuse the hic up . . . I needed a few shots of liquor to get ready after the nurse told me about --hic-- you . . ."
"I matter, I matter, people don't like me,but I matter --"
"Just calm down --hic-- ma'm, and don't worry about this --hic-- ruler, it's just for obstreperous patients, and you --hic-- don't understand that word, but if I have to pop you on your ample --hic-- butt, you'll quickly understand --"
"Doctor, I can't calm down, people who don't even know me, haven't even ever seen me, don't like me -- I matter, I matter . . ."

"Ma'm, you --hic-- ever thought of shutting your --hic-- mouth and keeping it shut?"
"I try, doctor,  but somebody look at me and my lips fly open and I start saying, 'I matter. I matter' . . .
"You can't force people to like you.  They may consider people like you as having no culture, as having low standards in education, music, books or most everything, and they think that all people who look like you are stupid and crazy and they don't want to be around any of you.  You ever try to walk by people without looking at them, as if your eyes were closed?"

"I tried, doctor, but almost got run over by some cars.  And I got caught up in a crowd of people protesting in the streets and ended up with them at some political rallies and --hic, hic, now you got me hiccing -- and at them rallies I was shouting 'I matter, I matter'.  I look in a mirror or show windows and start saying, 'I matter, I matter' --"
"Instead of saying 'I matter' you --hic-- ever try saying 'me matter'. or better still, 'me meat matter' . . .
                                       Part 2 (kesho, tomorrow, domani, mañana)