Sunday, May 14, 2017

A Mother Asks Her Sons

A son.
A mother ("I thought of my mother, who bought me my first Dylan album ... Having my own blue-eyed son, I sang the words to myself") asks her sons (Vladdy and Bobbie) ...

"...
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
...
"

Bobbie responds as follows ...

I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways
I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
...
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin’
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin’
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
...
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin’
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin’
Heard ten thousand whisperin’ and nobody listenin’
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin’
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
...
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 with hatred
...
I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’
I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
Where the executioner’s face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
Where black is the color, where none is the number
And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’
But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’
...

(Proof). And Vladdy says ... ?

Anyway ...

Happy Mothers are aware of at least Five Senses ... eh?

Happy Mother's Day !

Happy Mothers' (never have only one mother) favorite Nobel Laureate @ Literature ...





3 comments:

  1. Patti!

    "I hadn't forgotten the words that were now a part of me," she writes. "I was simply unable to draw them out."

    "We exist in the time of Bob Dylan"

    So well said!
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/patti-smith-nobel-flub-essay-1.3897745







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