Bob Dylan #2

Bob Dylan Installment #2 : “Chronicles”

Bob says all the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. He made me wonder what he means by the truth. Made me wonder what I mean by the truth. The version I cooked up for myself: the truth is any girl’s start-up vision of herself and the heights she tried to ascend, her journey’s strife - and if she falls, to where she ended up - after soaring on thin air - after shoving hard against her actual limits; that’s her sublime beauty, her graceful pathos, Her Truth.

Not - the sunny-day hopes she told other people about back when she was untried.

At one point in Bob’s Chronicles, I just wanted to yank on my pants, grab Sherrie and fly off to New Orleans to pay homage along Soniat Street, not far from Lafayette Cemetery #1.

He might just as well have titled his Chronicles “The Bob Dylan Prayer Book”.