Mr D's Confession

[saw]

Dylan told me that Jerry Garcia
could always hear the song
in all of his bad recordings,
the song buried deep inside.

He told me the reason he likes books is,
there is no noise inside them,
that the tone isn't apparent, that no one
is going to have to turn this one up louder.

He told me more people have seen the Mona Lisa
than have ever listened to Michael Jackson
and only three people can see her at once.
He told me his records weren't artistic,

they were documentation, songs are in my genes.
I can't stop them from spilling out,
it goes back to the ten hundreds
when people roamed the earth with one name.

The Duke Ellington Band was one man's vision.
The Lois Armstrong Band was Louie's individual voice.
Rhythm and Blues, rockabilly, all that stuff
is one man crying in the wilderness.

It's a lost form of art to not conform, he said.
Where are the Patsy Clines, the Platos',
the Socrates, the Whitmans and Emersons?
Look, everything I've done, was for myself,

I didn't want to be forgotten.
I don't have a team of astrologers
telling what's going to happen next,
I just make one move after the other,

this leads to that.
I don't like to make records
he confided in me,
I do it with great reluctance.

[mtmynd]

Dylan has always been good at confiding in people.

Joan Baez confided in me some of what Dylan had confided in her. Wow. Some of the stories I could tell you..! As soon as I can confide in you, saw.

Thx! Enjoyed.

[Lightning Rod]

God said to Abraham, 'Kill me a son.'

interesting talk, saw

[mnaz]

You saw...
Hearing the song thru its own noise is artistic.
No one really likes to make records, I imagine.
Too much like one man crying in the wilderness..

Thanks.

[judih]

thanks for sharing
one word after another
but you know it's all written in the stars
(the part that pluto was about to mention is what we'll never know)

[saw]

thanx everyone, enjoyed the comments...lots of interesting takes
on Mr. D, as I would expect here in the studio...peace....steve

[hester_prynne]

Man, everything about this poem is just so good.
Every line, rich and juicy.
Nice Nice job Saw....
H

[saw]

thanx a million hester...good to hear from you.....peace out