In Honor of a Vagabond

His life is the open road.
He has no permanent abode.

He student-taught on the rez in the 2000th year.
He's been known to frequent San Felipe's for a beer.

He once strolled through Frisco in a tight pink shirt.
He can just as easily imitate Jeremiah Johnson on the mountain dirt.

He taught English for a year in South Korea.
He once wooed a Mexican girl named Maria.

He belts out the lyrics of Haggard and Cash.
He believes the current political scene is all trash.

Math is his main game.
Students he teaches are never the same.

He's living on coffee and dreams.
He's trying to show that inner city LA is not as it seems.

His book is about to come out.
It will be entertaining without a doubt.

This wandering man is Dan.
He is living some of the secret dreams of everyman.