The numerically titled pair of poems —
21 (which has 23 words) and 17 (which has many more) — will appear in the next New Yorker, but you can read them online now. Proper spelling optional.

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Comments (8)
  1. Alan Knut  |   Posted on Sep 15th, 2008

    I hope his poetry is as good as his screenwriting…

  2. giorgio  |   Posted on Sep 15th, 2008

    “i really have nothing
    against
    marlon brando”
    LOL
    most hilarious pretentious non sequitur ending to an already pretentious poem ive ever seen. also funny: he writes like he pronounces. “an”, “t” instead of to
    and wtf is 21, a high school student could have wrote those will all those
    unnecessary
    line
    gaps

  3. gimme  |   Posted on Sep 15th, 2008

    stick to the songs bob, no poetry, no painting, just the songs, that’s all yee good for Z-man

  4. mitchell  |   Posted on Sep 15th, 2008

    I read this poetry book his wrote in the late 60s. It was pretentious and too full of itself to actually say anything. The odd thing is, his song lyrics are among the most poetic I’ve ever encountered.

  5. Hope he doesn’t blow it

  6. oh. BOB dylan. not dylan THOMAS.

    d’oh!

  7. Paul Ramon  |   Posted on Sep 15th, 2008

    The longer one is pretty decent, I think. Better than oh, 99% of the words that come through here, lyrics or otherwise.

  8. gimme  |   Posted on Sep 15th, 2008

    paul ramon wants to lick dylan’s taint i can tell

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