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by jake Thursday, Jun 27 2019, 10:55pm
international / poetry / post

Pathetic

they didn't work, Bob
your dissent was repackaged and commodified
long before you accepted that meaningless medal
from fellow Laureate Obama who is arguably
the bigger sellout -- so much for the Nobel today

how could you?
in one stupid egoistic move you trashed everything
you once represented to the political idealists
of the 60's --
you could have gone on stage
and told Obama what he could do with that medal
and become one of Real history's characters of integrity
not a tinsel bought, pop star

Woody, Cohen, Hendrix, Joplin, Marley, were Real, Bob
but You embraced and became
addicted to the fake, a popular culture star
bought owned and controlled by filthy money

"so where have YOU been my blue-eyed son?"
because you have arrived at nowhere,
but you were always a performing nowhere man --
a $1 whore has more integrity

https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/25/bob-dylan-the-culture-industrys-destruction-of-dissent/