New Statesman Competition No. 4444 by Jersey
We’d like a song by Bob Dylan about getting the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he has just been awarded, or the words of his acceptance speech.
New Statesman Competition No. 4444 by Jersey
We’d like a song by Bob Dylan about getting the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he has just been awarded, or the words of his acceptance speech.
The fading hippies wisely smile.
The shrewd professor toasts my style.
I've got 'em all convinced that I'll refuse you.
But though the phone calls draw a yawn,
The letters scattered on the lawn,
They're crazy if they think I'm gonna lose you.
I want you. I want you. I want you, Nobel.
Nobel, I want you.
The Swedes are coming all unglued.
They think I'm feigning slumber.
But I do not mean to be rude,
I've only lost their number.
The Poet labors like the Smith.
His dark enigma sounds like pith.
The Duchess listens, nodding with a flat eye.
Her doomed elixir's thick and pure.
She warns there isn't any cure.
(The reason it's all so obscure is that I
I want you. I want you. I want you, Nobel.)
Nobel, I want you.