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Poetry

mitch96

(14,962 posts)

2. At my first "real" job at 16 I had Dylan swimming around my head.

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 20, 2022, 12:50 PM

Oct 2022

When I hear those songs now this old geezer thinks of those innocent times...
He made my heart warm in a sea of turmoil..
I hear the lyrics
"Once upon a time you dressed so fine Threw the bums a dime in your prime"
And I'm gone..
It's amazing how a song or a smell can snap me right back
to a different time and place..
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Always thought of him as the best poet of the folk/rock era...nt Wounded Bear Oct 2022 #1

At my first "real" job at 16 I had Dylan swimming around my head. mitch96 Oct 2022 #2

He says it clearly in Tangled Up In Blue IbogaProject Oct 2022 #3

👍 mitch96 Oct 2022 #4