FREEDOM


Freedom is the ability to be hit by a school bus and say the children are to blame.

Freedom is the ability to tie your shoes any way you want.

Freedom is to leave your shoes untied.

Freedom is the right to say, "I own a gun to protect my freedom to own a gun."

Freedom is the ability to polish your gun.

Freedom is the ability to fall in love with your gun.

Freedom is the ability to marry your gun and have three little bullets.

Freedom is the unalienable right in every man to eat Play-Doh.

Freedom is to spell your name backwards and no one knows the difference.

Freedom is to refer to all of your best friends as "Ethel."

Freedom is the ability to pay for one newspaper from a box and take two.

Freedom is the right to call a paper airplane origami.

Freedom is using your left hand.

Freedom is the risk of kissing ass and not getting anywhere with it.

Freedom is the right to say all psychic friends networks are full of shit.

Freedom is the point when words like "ass" and "shit" have no shock value.

Freedom is electricity.

Freedom is love.

Freedom is coat hangers in a hotel that actually come off the rack.

Freedom is the ability to end things.


------written Spring 1997------


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