Recent Additions to Desolation Row

Dylan wrote the song and it first appearead in 1965. I have this sinister and solemn feeling (if those two can go together) that some additions really could be made. Other famous characters and people have ended up in that timeless place. Here it is.

Peter Pan he leaves Neverland when he realizes that eternal life based in youth really is so slow and Captain Hook, his archnemesis vanished a century ago. He just sits on the corner polishing his swiss army knife and growing a beard.

Sherlock Holmes decides he's had enough cleaning up the mess that London puts out daily. He smokes his pipe four times a day and argues logic with Joseph Stallin who can't seem to get Adolf Hitler off his mind. Adolf is living on the second floor of the same building. There are rumors he's writing again but I've seen him and he's got the worst case of writers block known to man.

Dr. Frankenstein can't seem to escape his own nightmares and so he' s given in and bought a condo in the middle of Desolation Row. His roomate is his monster. They have an unspoken agreement with each other. One doesn't pay rent and the other doesn't try to kill his creation.

The Estonia has just arrived carrying all four hundred souls somewhere on board. She's still saying it wasn't the door so it must have been the Russian mob. She keeps the Titanic company and changes his sheets every other week.

Desolation Row keeps growing...