“Lesser Lines,” by Mark Harrison

I wanted to be young Bob Dylan for an instant,
not the myth, but the man –
rushing through the pouring New York rain
into some Manhattan bookstore
to buy you a cheap chapbook
of Lord Byron poems
and inscribe on its pages that I had
rushed through the pouring New York rain
into some Manhattan bookstore
to buy you a cheap chapbook
of Lord Byron poems

But I’m not Bob Dylan -
not a myth, just a man
strumming lesser songs
inscribing
lesser lines
lesser words
on pages
torn
from me

Mark Harrison is a creative writer, playwright and an award-winning professional journalist and photographer from northeast Alabama