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Soul Practitioner

By the time chimes of freedom
startle your sleeping ears
and you hear Bob Dylan sing,
play, and cast his dancing spell

Your way, shiploads of wage-slaves
have pitched in, pitchmen have cut in,
Al Kooper has snuck in, even the taxman
has joined our sonorous feast.

Herman Melville* worked alone.

*Mr. Dylan’s Nobel Prize lecture has 78 sentences about Moby Dick.

Dave Read

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