For Mike Fagan

Turn up the steam and start the locomotive,
We’ll turn this bitch around and make a break,
With a case of beer, chicken and peyote
We’ll start our helter skelter shake’n’bake.

We’ll plant new seeds in gardens of despair,
Where paths once blocked will burst with life again--
Like hippies, skinny dipping with long hair
We’ll greet the sun and grass, the sky and rain.

We’ll break on through in the ecstatic moment
Of a sudden burst of laughter, love and light
Like others still to come and those before us
We’ll keep the revolution burning bright.

      August 12, 2012
  --Alexander Shaumyan