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Dylan’s Acrostic

Tim Krabbe dutch author of “We Are But We Aren’t Psycho” speculates that Dylan’s acrostic poem was Marla Foust.  Krabbe “fills in the blanks” using speculative words to make it fit the redacted spots in conjunction with the letters of her name.  

Krabbe: “..But Dylan had a secret admirer.  There is a possibility that the girl from his halcyon dreams also dreamed of him. That should’ve been Marla Foust, and there’s a great chance that that’s true.  The censoring makes it difficult to tell but several things, including the acrostic point to Marla as the great love he spoke of.”

“According to Marla herself, she knew Dylan.  He had asked her to prom but she was already going with someone else, otherwise she would’ve said yes.  Marla also said that she had hung out with Dylan and Zack the weekend before prom.”   (Dylan does not mention this in his journal.)

A couple of weeks after April 20th, one of the teachers made the students write about the shooting.  She said that two of the essays stood out, because of the warm tone the girls had written the essay with – as if they had a crush on the shooters.  The girl writing about Dylan was Marla Foust.

transylvestite:

I’ve always wondered about these words that Dylan wrote. I’m guessing it says “heavy light black white wrong write”. Perhaps they are the lyrics to the song Cumbersome by Seven Mary Three? “Too heavy, too light, too black or too white, too wrong or too right, today or tonight, cumbersome…” Since the song was popular in 1996 and reached #1 on the mainstream billboard, I’d say it’s very likely that Dylan had heard this song.

That’s a good possibility! Originally, I assumed Dylan was just dabbling in dichotomy – however, the first word can’t be left as in left & right. Heavy could be the first word. Though, he does write write instead of right. Still… good speculation.

The lyrics do sound like they would appeal to Dylan in regards to himself and “the stone wall” blocking him from his dream girl.

Cumbersome – by American Standard

She calls me Goliath and I wear the David mask
I guess the stones are coming too fast for her now
You know I’d like to believe this nervousness will pass
All the stones that are thrown are building up a wall

I have become cumbersome to this world
I have become cumbersome to my girl

I’d like to believe we could reconcile the past
Resurrect those bridges with an ancient glance
But my old stone face can’t seem to break her down
She remembers bridges, burns them to the ground

I have become cumbersome to this world
I have become cumbersome to my girl

Too heavy too light, too black or too white, too wrong or too right
Today or tonight, cumbersome
Too rich too poor, she’s wanting me less and I’m wanting her more
The bitter taste is cumbersome

No yeah
No no no yeah
No no no yeah

There is a balance between two worlds
One with an arrow and a cross
Regardless of the balance life has become
Cumbersome

Another one of his favorite bands was the Chemical Brothers.  And at one point, Dylan talked with Devon Adams about going to one of their upcoming concerts.  But Devon notes, “He obviously never ended up going to it because it came in summer of 1999.”

This would have been the concert they would’ve gone to together at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in 1999

Very Sad..

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