Desolation Row
Desolation Row is the Folk Music Scene in the early 1960's
Desolation Row is the Folk Music Scene in the early 1960's
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Body armor vest: Inflexible; unyielding: iron resolve. To place authority in the<br />
control of a person or group.<br />
Her profession’s her religion<br />
Something of overwhelming importance to a person<br />
Her sin is her lifelessness<br />
Not inhabited by living beings or capable of sustaining life: a lifeless planet.<br />
And though her eyes are fixed upon<br />
To direct steadily: site to put in position for operation, as artillery.<br />
Noah’s great rainbow<br />
The promise not to destroy every living creature on earth<br />
She spends her time peeking<br />
looking or peering furtively, as from a place of concealment.<br />
Into <strong>Desolation</strong> <strong>Row</strong><br />
Making it a possibility for America.<br />
Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood<br />
With his memories in a trunk<br />
Passed this way an hour ago<br />
With his friend, a jealous monk<br />
He looked so immaculately frightful<br />
As he bummed a cigarette<br />
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes<br />
And reciting the alphabet<br />
Now you would not think to look at him<br />
But he was famous long ago<br />
For playing the electric violin<br />
On <strong>Desolation</strong> <strong>Row</strong><br />
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