Ken Kesey
1935 - 2001
Husband - Father - Prankster - Magician - Author - Friend
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Sometimes a Great Notion
Hail To The Chief!
An ode to the fallen,
as with Jack, Neal and Allen before
this body's electric transformation
More than just a great notion
and more than a body of word
is this bardic soul's deliverance
Laughing again out loud with
Page, Zonker, Sandy and more
pranking us -- the eternal left behind
knock, knock, knockin' on the door
To quiet the mind and rest our fears
as with this Knight's day drawn nigh
Hail to the chief!
The cat in the hat,
a cellular muse
in the great meow
And now the great escape --
an Acid Test we all must pass
however cuckoo our clocks become
Whispering deliverance --
questing for the rest
in the Hear & Know.