Bob Dylan

Last night I dreamt a new Bob Dylan song It was one he always meant to write but never got around to making He listed all the horrifying newly commercialized street corners of New York, London, and Paris Tribeca, Hudson Yards, Bedford Ave & 7th Rue Charlot in the Marais That canal that's in East London All these places had huge wheat pastes promoting his new album It was a black and white photo of his face With big text that said "Dylan" Right next to an ad for the new Jack Harlow bowl at Sweetgreen He thought about making a song about these places In an effort to prove to the listener That all art eventually becomes part of the Machine That everything "Transgressive" is bought and sold as a commodity That being "Transgressive" is the least punk thing you could be And maybe even that the most punk person on the block Is Jack Harlow smiling on a billboard Happily eating his custom salad from Sweetgreen Maybe it's cooler to not have that tattoo From that huge studio on Rivington The one right by the plant store That sells monstera plants for like $70 Yeah, that's where they're promoting Dylan's brand-new album He's pissed about it He's not happy at all He still has an excellent radar for who's cool, who's a poser Who's a rip-off, who's a dreamer He hasn't forgot the Beats, the lessons he learned along the road But when he's in his Uber Black to Electric Lady Studios on 8th St He passes the newly condemned McDonald's That people used to only use as a bathroom He passes Blank Street Coffee and gets nauseous Cause right outside that Blank Street Coffee on the sidewalk Is a massive ad for his brand-new album He wants to stop the car, walk up, rip it off the walls Sink his nails into the chipped green paint Of the construction board behind it Tear it all to shreds and shed a tear about where did he go wrong Is this what success is? To have your album promoted right by the Blank Street Coffee Where there used to be a cool stoop that you smoked cigs on? Tribeca, Hudson Yards, Bedford Ave & 7th Rue Charlot in the Marais That canal that's in East London Tribeca, Hudson Yards, Bedford Ave & 7th Rue Charlot in the Marais That canal that's in East London Tribeca, Hudson Yards, Bedford Ave & 7th Rue Charlot in the Marais That canal that's in East London Tribeca, Hudson Yards, Bedford Ave & 7th