The 18th installmentof Talkin’ Bob Dylan, is entitled,“'May I see your references?' Part II: DesolationRow". in the last episode we made the observation that Bob Dylan likes to refer in his songs to previouslyestablished characters, literary, historical and mythological. This week we dive intohismost extremeexample and posit thatthe song is an apocalyptic, epic poem in which Desolation Row is perhaps an enlightened state of mind rather than a geographical place.