Kiosk: Eshgh e Sorat (Need for Speed)

The power of love or love of power
Modernism versus tradition forever

Living in the evil axis
Speed freaks in jalopy taxis

Why feel any pain and suffer
When pills and powders’ all on offer

Nothing for lunch or dinner to make
Then let them eat Yellow Cake

Multiple choice elections left to chance
Holy matrimony by loan and finance

Scraped up the very last dime
Sent it straight to Palestine

Guaranteed success or money back
Underground music or cultural attack

No need for cardiologists
Just facelifts by cosmetologists

Immoral zealots, fanatic factions
Chinese-style economic expansions

Religious democratic droppings
Pizza with Ghormeh Sabzi toppings

*

Barefoot children on the street
Chelo Kebab all you can eat

Smuggling women to Dubai
Our noble men turning a blind eye

Blood transfusion with an H.I.V flavor
Bird Flu virus or the new life saver

Cholera hits and one takes a bow
Another man dies from Mad Cow

Foreign currencies are reserved
Border movements all observed

Tried everything in our ability
Still no financial credibility

Oil dependant economy is hooked
Incentive vacations overbooked

Philosophical cinema in fusion
Cross-over musical confusion

Clandestine lovers and attractions
Chinese-style economic expansions

Religious democratic droppings
Pizza with Ghormeh Sabzi toppings

*

Meat stew served in posh cafes over artistic rants
Meditation classes just to get into each others pants

Break your fast, charity food served up
Zereshk Polo with ketchup

Life in virtual reality
Amusement park University

Our national soccer heroes
Can’t kick their over-inflated egos

Counterfeit medication
Addiction as a recreation

A nation dressed up in fashion
Artificial industrial passion

Long distance system of education
Sell questions of entrance examination

Interest rates or finance charge
By choice or force but by and large

Immoral zealots, fanatic factions
Chinese-style economic expansions

Religious democratic droppings
Pizza with Ghormeh Sabzi toppings

*