vagabond

Strum the rusted violins of yore

Deutschland, here she comes

To immerse in your Faust and Marx

For she is a maiden of wanderlust.

Walks barefoot on the roads of Dresden

Like she did on the Rue Cler in Paris

People call her a “hobo” -

For her hair is wild and

Free.

Listening to the underwater symphony

Played by a marine orchestra

Peerless silence and blue daze

She swims across the Atlantic.

Mated with tribal men in Nigerian forests

Drove an ambulance in war-torn Syria

Fought against the Taliban in Afghanistan

Made Bentos for a company in Osaka.

Worked in an Amazon shipping workshop

Pissed into bottles and took dumps in bushes

Drank a lot, ate little protein and veggies

Preached Buddha in Tibet.

Crossed into America after living in Juarez

Slept in bunkers and under trees

Flew on a plane back to

USSR, her native land.