He's a Weird Monkey, Very Funky

The always interesting David P. Goldman who channels Spengler at PJ Media, riffs on the Nobel Prize for poetry awarded to Bob Dylan. Goldman doesn't approve of the choice, but does approve of Dylan ignoring the Nobel Committee.

Goldman believes Dylan is primarily a satirist, a put-on artist, and I'm inclined to agree. My favorite scrap of Dylan doggerel is this, from the 1971 I Shall Be Free, No. 10:

Well, I set my monkey on the log
And ordered him to do the Dog
He wagged his tail and shook his head
And he went and did the Cat instead
He's a weird monkey, very funky.

Look up those lyrics and tell me this is a Nobel poet....