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Wild myths I believed about white people: Notes on race, American ignorance and the Capitol riots
America will never cure its racial sickness because no one wants to begin with what they do not understand
February 21, 2021 12:30AM (UTC)
Supporters of US President Donald Trump hold a rally outside the US Capitol as they protest the upcoming electoral college certification of Joe Biden as US President in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
First thought: Thom Gunn, âThoughts on Unpackingâ. âI realise,â he ends, âthat love is an arranging.â No sooner thought, I think of another, cracking conclusion: âThe world might change⦠Change as our kisses are changing
without our thinking.â And then I think of âBreakfast Songâ, another Elizabeth Bishop poem weâre lucky to have in print. Of Derek Mahonâs âMonochromeâ. Of Seamus Heaneyâs âSkunkâ. Even Matt Healyâs âSomebody Elseâ (as good as Dylanâs âIdiot Windâ).
âTo My Wife at Midnightâ, Grahamâs best. âSleeping alone together,â he looks at her beside him, asleep in her âlonely
bob dylan was awarded the nobel prize for literature this week, which got us wondering what the bard might have to say about this campaign or if he has had some things to say. bob dylan has never shied away from politics. don t stand in the doorway don t block the hall but what can you say about politics this year? and a campaign in which the size of a candidate s, um, manhood was discussed on stage at a debate. the times they ever a-changing wind has been a favorite dylan motif. the answer is blowing in the wind blowing through songs like homesick blues to idiot wind. idiot wind
cartoonian. reporter: bob dylan never shied away from politics. don t stand in the doorway don t block up the halls reporter: what can you say about politics this year, and a campaign in which the size of a candidate s manhood was discussed on the stage in a debate? the times, they are a changing reporter: wind has been a favorite dylan motif. blowing in the wind reporter: home sick blues. don t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows reporter: to idiot wind. idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth reporter: a song donald trump might be able to identify with the lyrics. whoever it is, i wish they d cut it out when they will, i can only