Let us bow our heads & contemplate
the superficiality of America,
land of neon signs & K marts & mini-malls & mega malls,
sounds of diesels driving on dark pavement,
moving through the buzzing of the grim night,
the contempoarary fool flirting on wooden bar stolls,
drunk on the wavering of artifical multi-colored lights &
the shallowness of conversations in restaurants &
the empty eyed man nodding, saying,
"he was so drunk that's why he survived," &
mad laughter filling the polluted air &
adults giggle &
talk joyfully of farts & burps.
our destination is "The Kingdom of bang & blab"
or perhaps its tweedle dee & tweedle dumb to be had,
but here we are, land where money buys freedom &
bullshit talking tricksters tapping down cracked sidewalks,
jibbering trivia & useless clucking of tongues,
this nonsensical rhetoric is our National Anthem sung,
let us forget our babbling & buying ,
let us dwindle our days away,
sway in the comfort of cash & silly stutterings,
let us forgive our ignorance,
we are as unenlightened as a cockroach.
Let us pray for more dharma lions & buddhas
to deconstruct the triteness of this Nation