Tell you what, bright-eyes...you take up song writing for a living, one guitar and one suitcase to start with, and let us know how it went. We'll even put you on the web-radio if you're good, and help start your career.

It takes a certain amount of guts to put a pen to deep subjects, work out an honest and decently forned song, and stand it up in front of thousands of people and let them know it is your art.

To do that successfully takes more guts, art, smarts and luck that I have, even if my voice is better than Mr Z's, which is arguable. So I decline to subscribe to the criticality which you propose, cuz I frankly admire what he has pulled off. As well as being sometimes touched and often highly entertained by his musical talent, regardless of his technical skills in voice or instrument.

As for tyhe argument that his poetry is an offense to poets, let me just remark that I come from a long line of them, some of them renowned and all of them aesthetically sensitive, and my sainteds mither was one of the first people to buy Dylan's first album. I don't even know how she found out about it, but she loved it, raucous and all.

It is very easy to get overly precious about intellectual poetry and forget the roots of song. But it isn't good for you to do so.