I remember when Dylan was a snot nosed young punk full of milk and vitriol, peering belligerently at you from album covers, all tumbleweed hair and baby fat cheeks, sneering down his nose at the old and the lame and the stupid, the perfect brat. Probably hadn't even started shaving yet. Singing in an old man's cracked broke down emphysema wheeze like old cars rusting in the junkyard. He's old now, his face is all gaunt and haunted, hair sticking up in all directions like electrified lint, down his long pointed witch nose like he's heard your lame story too many times to give a fuck, looking for all the world like Methuselah's mohel. And his voice like old paint chipping off all those junked cars, still telling us how lame we are. Somehow, coming out of that grey grizzlechopped countenance, it makes him seem all the more like God's immaculate brat.
From Zeitgeist Press: Vampyre Mike Kassel was a poet, musician, songwriter, and playwright. He resided in San Francisco after having been run out of Boston for crimes against normalcy. He held the S. F. record for most times evicted. He liked sincere girls who didn’t wear too much makeup and who put out on the first date.
M.A. Kassel wrote, published, and performed enthusiastically in the San Francisco poetry and music scene for decades. He died in 2008, and will be mourned by many women and several cats.
You can find Kassel’s poetic works at Zeitgeist Press.
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Nice. Bob is the milk cow that keeps on giving and giving and giving. Ain't gonna be another. He's the end of the line.
The only things that have made any sense over the last 50 or 60 years has been the music and the artists who made it.