TSL Pandorathon May 24th A Pantoum
Ode or tribute on/to Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize winner, on his 80th Birthday.
It was a world made of love songs, of smoky hate and green-sleeved fate
It cut into the skin, till blood spurted out, visceral and feral
"Clinked, like a coin in the cup of the blind man at the gate"
Made of characters like the fictional Quinn, the Eskimo, and the real Blind Willie McTell
It cut into the skin, till blood spurted out, visceral, and feral
"You came up behind me, I saw you go by"
Made of characters like Quinn, the Eskimo, and Blind Willie McTell
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, et tu, a dream and a lie?
"You came up behind me, I saw you go by"
I have been the joker man, forever, and for larks
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, et tu, a dream and a lie?
"Look up in the hills, that flash of light." A dog barks.
I have been the joker man, forever, and for larks
In the world of the jukebox bars, the phonograph records will still gently spiral
"Look up in the hills, that flash of light." A dog barks.
I will hold you and dance again, to "rough and rowdy ways", Querelle.*
Image - Getty Images Dylan with Suze Rotolo from the iconic Freewheelin' shoot.
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