Escapist Meal Combo no. $4, with extra fries.

[mnaz]

Civics drones once debated the nuts and bolts of freedom,
such as how your freedom should not bulldoze mine.
Now we debate how far the bulldozer must go.

Now, in this eroded mud tide,
in this waking human intellectual equation,
for all of its expanding universe I need a rewrite.
Escapism may be an admission of weakness,
or possibly the way, the truth and the light,
and yet it bears the permanent stink of zen,
like Jesus bore the permanent stink of redemption,
and freedom is still too young to know what hit it,
fascinated by its own speech.

[judih]

bling freedom
shines and jives marquees de sad
so despondent
masochistic whirlwind
can't hear ourselves enslaved

buy buy baybee
buy buy ebay
git cher freedom here

i'll take the combo platter without fries
free calories mean free status
i need the dough
i need the gumby power play
i need i need

oh, where has freedom gone
has it paid for a one-way ticket
outta here?

i'll take the fries

[mnaz]

what we need is always over there, never here...
too many people trying to get from here to there...
and jesus, it's getting crowded over there...

but zen isn't the answer, except that it is...
all i know is that zen is a lazy, shiftless, evasive bastard.
zen needs to get-a-job...