I AM

I AM:

a resistant cog in a foul, imperial machine,

a flaming ball of bohemian enthusiasm,

a scholarly child of a rough and tumble timber town,

a learned jester and a washed-up clown,

an iconoclastic rebel raring to be heard,

a bird who has flown through a lot of country,

a bold but sensitive youth
longing for lovely damsels,

a fucking atheist messiah hanging
from a cross of silicon and gold!!!