Expecting Rain

I've read it, a few years ago...I don't remember much other than that I really liked it at the time. I might still like it now.

The idea of Bob Dylan, one of the best wordsmiths this side of James Joyce, writing a novel seems far too intriguing to avoid being ultimately disappointing.

That was a novel?

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... 'Tarantula' by Bob Dylan 1966 cont. .....

passing the sugar to iron man of the bottles who
arrives with the grin & a heatlamp & he's push-
ing "who dunnit" buttons this year & he is a
love monger at first sight ... you have seen him
sprout up from a dumb hill bully into a bunch
of backslap & he's wise & he speaks to everyone
as if they just answered the door/ he don't like
people that say he comes from the monkeys but
nevertheless he is dull & he is destroyingly boring
... while Allah the cook scrapes hunger from
his floor & pounding it into the floating dishes
with roaring & argue over acne & recite
calendars & pointing to each other's garments
& liquid & disperse into segments & die crazy
deaths & bellowing farce mortal farm vomit &
why for Jesus Christ be Just another meathead?
when all the tontos & heyboy lose their legs
trying to frug while kemosabe & mr palladin
spend their off hours remaining separate but
equal & anyway why not wait for laughter to
straighten the works out meantime & WOWEE
smash & the rage of it all when former lover
cowboy hanging upside down & Suzy Q. the
angel putting new dime into this adoption
machine as out squirts a symbol squawking &
freezing & crashing into the bowels of some
hideous soap box & it's a rumble & iron man
picking up his "who dunnit" buttons & giving
them away free & trying to make friends & even
tho youre belonging to no political party, youre
now prepared, prepared to remember something
about something

.. the chief of police holding a bazooka
.. with his name engraved on it. coming in
.. drunk & putting the barrel into the face
.. of the lawyer's pig. once a wife beater,
.. he became a professional boxer & received
.. a club foot/ he would literally like to
.. become an executioner. what he doesnt know
.. is that the lawyer's pig has made friends
.. with the senator


...to be continued. 'Tarantula' by Bob Dylan 1966..

#5

... 'Tarantula' by Bob Dylan ... cont. .....

gambler's passion & his slave, the sparrow & he's
ranting from a box of black platform & mesmer-
izing this ball of daredevils to stay in the morn-
ing & dont bust from the factories/ everyone
expecting to be born with whom they love &
theyre not & theyve been let down, theyve been
lied to & now the organizers must bring the
oxen in & dragging leaflets & gangrene enthu-
siasm, ratfinks & suicide tanks from the pay
phones to the housing developments & it usually
starts to rain for a while ... little boys cannot go
out & play & new men in bulldozers come in
every hour delivering groceries & care packages
being sent from las vegas ... & nephews of the
coffee bean expert & other favorite sons grad-
uating with a pompadour & cum laude-praise
be & a wailing farewell to releasing the hermit
& beautifully ugly & fingering eternity come
down & save your lambs & butchers & strike the
roses with is rightful patsy odor ... & grampa
scarecrow's got the tiny little wren & see for
yourself while saving him too/ look down of
great Romantic.you who can predict from every
position, you who know that everybody's not
Job ore a Nero nor a J>C. Penny ... look down &
seize your gambler's passion, make high wire
experts into heroes, presidents into con men.
turn the eventual ... but the hermits being not
talking & lower class or insane or in prison ...
& they dont work in the factories anyway

..the good samaritan coming in with the
..words "round & round we go" tattooed on
..his cheek/ he tells the senator to stop
..insulting the lawyer/ he would like to
..be an entertainer & brags that he is
..one of the best strangers around, the
..pig jumps on him & starts eating his
..face

...to be continued. 'Tarantula' by Bob Dylan 1966..