<h3>You Say American...</h3>

Detail from Old Men Eating [Goya] 203KB

They're selling postcards of the hanging | They're painting the passports brown | The beauty parlor is filled with sailors | The circus is in town


Detail from Two Young People Laughing at a Man [Goya] 500KB

Here comes the blind commissioner | They've got him in a trance | One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker | The other is in his pants


Detail from Burial of the Sardine [Goya] 167KB

And the riot squad they're restless | They need somewhere to go | As Lady and I look out tonight | From Desolation Row

Bob Dylan | Desolation Row

...I say American't.

And yet, somehow, I hope I'm proved hopelessly wrong.