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[PrinceMyshkin]

Just think, they paid you
to be Bob Dylan,
when you’d a done it
any eight days of the week
just for the pleasure, just
for the pain of it!

Hey look at Joan Baez
there beside you, her slender
bird of an arm
just rising up every now and then
as if it wanted to be free!

Free of her body, free
of her dark beauty, she
like some Inca goddess
you couldn’t sacrifice
because she’d a done it for free!

They say that that man
lay with that woman and I,
I was neither of them, no,
I was neither of them,
stuck here in my darkened bedroom
doomed forever to be me.

Oh here’s to joy
and here’s to sadness, here’s
to the song
that’s forever in my heart, forever
in my mind that never quite
comes out of me.

Oh, if you won’t be my brother,
brother, will you be my enemy?
Will you be my enemy?




Jerry Newman © 08Dec07

[Sweets America]

:banana: :banana: :banana: Jerry!!! Jerry!!! :banana: :banana: :banana:
This is JUST GREAT!!!
The rhythm of it, the joy, and the fact that I heard it on the phone in the middle of the night!
I am too tired to say anything more but that is a wonderful poem!

[ampoule]

With apologies to Mr. Dylan....
How many roads must a man drive down before he admits he is lost?
Why when a man becomes married is he unable to find his own socks?
How many times will it take 'til he knows he's seen the Three Stooges enough?
The answer my friend, I cannot comprehend, the answer I cannot comprehend.

Good poem prince. I've not seen that special.

[PrinceMyshkin]

With apologies to Mr. Dylan....
How many roads must a man drive down before he admits he is lost?
Why when a man becomes married is he unable to find his own socks?
How many times will it take 'til he knows he's seen the Three Stooges enough?
The answer my friend, I cannot comprehend, the answer I cannot comprehend.

Good poem prince. I've not seen that special.A highlight of it for me was when Joan Baez came forward and offered her renditon of Dylan imitating Baez!

You realized, I hope, that my poem was meant to be read aloud, through your nose, with some sort of weird Minnesota accent?

Your hilarious parody deserves to be set up as a thread all to itself with an invitation for others to add their own versions.

[B-Mental]

here is my local pbs...its a Cajun, Zydeco, place. They speak several cajun french because of the region...give it a spin its a lot of fun.


http://www.krvs.com/

[Xillus_Xavier]

All I can muster to say on this is...

AWESOME!

[Scube]

I am not familiar with the references but love the energy and flow!

[PrinceMyshkin]

I am not familiar with the references but love the energy and flow!

In which case, you picked up on the freedom & joy with which I wrote it. If you're a regular PBS viewer, keep your eyes and ears open for one of their fund drives, during which they replay programes that have been favourites with their audience, and hopfully they will repeat this review of 1963, 64 and 65 concerts by Bob Dylan - and keep a sharp eye out for the smile he gives Joan Baez as he sings "It Ain't Me Babe, it ain't me you're looking for, babe......." an historic moment in his unsmiling life!

[CdnReader]

I like this spunky, funky side of you. :)

[firefangled]

Yes! I like this more than anything you have done for awhile. I don't even know what to say is my favorite part. I love the references to their music.

Makes me wanna go down Highway 61 again.

I've got to watch for this one. I just watched one on Doo-Wap a couple nights ago and I've seen the 60s revivals.

Marvelous, Prince!

[PrinceMyshkin]

Yes! I like this more than anything you have done for awhile. I don't even know what to say is my favorite part. I love the references to their music.

Makes me wanna go down Highway 61 again.

I've got to watch for this one. I just watched one on Doo-Wap a couple nights ago and I've seen the 60s revivals.

Marvelous, Prince!

Did you try reading it with Dylan's kvetchy twang in your mind? And part of what you may have liked, if I migt presume, is the sheer fun I had writing it. And if you do manage to catch a rerun of that broadcast (part of their fund drive) keep a sharp eye out for the .5 second smile (or was it a twitch?) that Dylan gives Baez when he sings "It ain't you, babe" to her...

A friend of mine who watched the same broadcast, and one of whose grandchildren is autistic, conjectures that both the genius and the lack of public affect might be signs of autism. Was there ever another artist who seemed to get less pleasure out of his own creativity?