A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall (Live at Town Hall 1963)

Already at 22, Dylan rasps out images in A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall that are elliptical, prophetic, apocalyptic and uncompromising. If this isn't poetry, what is?

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