Poem: Heard Mentality

You’ve got to know what came before you, who was there first, who (maybe) did it best,

the people that wrote the scriptures and pushed the stones up hills, that worked the line in

the way you wished – and now you do, you give it a go – because of them.

Warren Zevon being asked about meeting Bob Dylan. He said, “well he invented

my job…I applied for the job …