Oh, what did you meet my blue-eyed son ?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded in hatred
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.— From Hard Rain
Nobody saw that coming.
His Greatness Mr. Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”
Dylan the poet/singer/entertainer: AP photo:
It’s richly deserved for his literary poetry in the form of a Psalm-like lament and call for justice like this:
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Yes, how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky ?
Yes, how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry ?
Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died ?
The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
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