Who are you, TK?                It seems
                                that during the sixties
I've heard                      no one heard anything
about you before.               about you.
                                Those were hard years
In Cannes,                      to live through;
there was this group,           and all this time,
who,                            I've often wondered
sitting, on the beach,          where you disappeared to.
drinking their wine,
was talking about you.          The hippie thing,
                                it wasn't your style.
They said,                      The riots and protests,
it was you                      you've never had anything
who created the streaking       to do with violence or rile.
during seventy-four.
                                The next thing
I didn't really                 back in time,
pay it no mind;                 that's credited
I thought                       to your name,
it was the talking              is the beatnik fad of
of the wine.                    coffee houses on every campus,
                                everyone a philosopher,
It was ten years after,         and hardly anyone suffering
Woodstock,                      shame.
at a party
in Yellowstone,                 It's hard to go
that I heard                    back farther,
your name again.                I just can't relate
                                to anything else
Some three or four              you've done;
arranged the Woodstock          nothing specific
for a hundred thousand.         anyway.
But they said
it was you                      There's a faint sense
who spoke the word              of Irish in your being.
and a half million              An IRA child
brothers and sisters            who tired
gathered that weekend.          of all the violence
                                and turned to
                                peaceful, lively, pranks
                                instead.

                I've heard of you
                before today,
                but,
                just who are you TK?