Saturday, April 03, 2021

"When you're lost in the rain in Juarez, and it's Eastertime, too": Dylan, Judy Collins, Borges

I like to put my list of songs into a random-list generator and play them in the order that comes out. So today, I found myself singing an appropriate line for this weekend: "When you're lost in the rain in Juarez, and it's Eastertime, too." And while I "laboriously strummed" Bob Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", I thought of the Judy Collins version I heard so often as a child, and that lovely line from Borges I recognize myself in more than in many of my own poems and songs: "[...] me reconozco menos en sus libros que en muchos otros o que en el laborioso rasgueo de una guitarra."  (Andrew Shields, #111words, 3 April 2021)


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