This is Bob Dylan on Barack Obama:
He’s got an interesting background. He’s like a fictional character, but he’s real. First off, his mother was a Kansas girl. Never lived in Kansas though, but with deep roots. You know, like Kansas bloody Kansas. John Brown the insurrectionist. Jesse James and Quantrill. Bushwhackers, Guerillas. Wizard of Oz Kansas. I think Barack has Jefferson Davis back there in his ancestry someplace. And then his father. An African intellectual. Bantu, Masai, Griot type heritage - cattle raiders, lion killers. I mean it’s just so incongruous that these two people would meet and fall in love. You kind of get past that though. And then you’re into his story. Like an odyssey except in reverse.
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3 years ago
That is really cool.
ReplyDeleteBob Dylan = extremely awesome. Or as Will Ferrel would say, "Tigawesomer" (from his comment on a funny or die video that he loves).
ReplyDeleteVery nice prose poem. You don't hang out with him, though? Or people who voted for him?
ReplyDeleteI hang out with a lot of people who voted for him. It's great, because I get to say to them the same kinds of things of things people were always saying to me during Bush. What goes around comes around in American politics. It is a beautiful cycle, like the circle of life almost. If I had the chance I'd probably hang out with Obama though. He seems chill.
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