Zen Automaton - Pond

A zen automaton

Couldn’t crack that koan

And drive the sword of human guilt

Right up to its diamond hilt

I read it on my phone

Holy shit, is that Sir Ian McKellen leaning from the clouds?

Shooting lightning from his eyes all across the Burmese crowds?

I don’t know much, but I know I don’t like them at all

Oh, whatever they do, whoever they are

I read it on my phone

Paint me green and push me through the surgery door

Julienne my frontal lobe and bludgeon me with a two-by-four

And send me to the wild to eat and fuck, and fuck and eat

God, Father, give up your seat for the pregnant and the old

No, don’t you know who that is?

It’s Ringo fucking Starr

It takes 1.56 666 666 fractions of the time

It took me to stand up and realise we need to die

In Silicon Valley, they’re working in and for the greatest minds

A nihilist pact is just what logic prescribes

I feel like I could piss right out the window and hit the moon