Let it die a natural death, instead of subjecting it to the firing squad. I'm glad it veered off into Dylan, even if it's the umpteenth Dylan thread.
I heard Paul Muldoon read at the Poetry Center in Chicago, and he talked about his collaboration with Warren Zevon. He said that on "Macgillycuddy's Reeks,' they wrote the first verse right away, but then it took them another month to get the second one right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tE-aZ1k-Oc
Here's a good essay on Muldoon.
https://www.nodepression.com/paul-muldoon-goes-rogue/
What the hell, man, let the thread go where it may.