"He Looked Right At Me!"

Bob Dylan wrote "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" about a relationship I had.

Well, that's actually pretty unlikely, since I don't think I was alive when he wrote it and even if I had been I probably would never had met him for long enough to fill him in about my boy drama. Yet somehow, that song--and also a number of Federico Garcia Lorca poems, and maybe a book or two--seems to accurately and eloquently sum up a time period from my life.

This is not bizarre. Most people go through the same basic life experiences and feel the same emotions. The people who become famous are the people who can most succintly put these emotions into words or images or sound. So when Bob Dylan sang "I wish there were something you could do or say to try and make me change my mind and stay," enough people felt their eyes widen and thought "Holy Shit! That's me!" to make the song a hit.

With that said, PLEASE STOP QUOTING THE BEATLES AT ME. It's not profound.

Love,
Avi