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Jim Morrison hoped to be remembered as a poet rather than as a rock singer

He took great care in his poetic efforts, which were often incorporated into his musical performances

  • The Movie
  • The movie will begin in five moments.
  • The mindless voice announced
  • all those unseated will await the next show.
  • We filed slowly, languidly into the hall.
  • The auditorium was vast and silent
  • as we seated and were darkened, the voice continued.
  • The program for this evening is not new.
  • You’ve seen this entertainment through and through.
  • You’ve seen your birth your life and death
  • you might recall all of the rest.
  • Did you have a good world when you died?
  • Enough to base a movie on?
  • I’m getting out of here.
  • Where are you going?
  • To the other side of morning.
  • Please don’t chase the clouds, pagodas.
  • Her cunt gripped him like a warm, friendly hand.
  • It’s alright, all your friends are here.
  • When can I meet them?
  • After you’ve eaten
  • I’m not hungry.
  • Uh, we meant beaten.
  • Silver stream, silvery scream.
  • Oooooh, impossible concentration.
  • Stoned Immaculate
  • I’ll tell you this...
  • No eternal reward will forgive us now.
  • For wasting the dawn.
  • Back in those days everything was simpler and more confused.
  • One summer night, going to the pier.
  • I ran into two young girls.
  • The blonde one was called Freedom.
  • The dark one, Enterprise.
  • We talked and they told me this story.
  • Now listen to this...
  • I’ll tell you about Texas radio and the big beat.
  • Soft driven, slow and mad.
  • Like some new language.
  • Reaching your head with the cold, sudden fury of a divine messenger.
  • Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god.
  • Wandering, wandering in hopeless night.
  • Out here in the perimeter there are no stars.
  • Out here we is stoned.
  • Immaculate.
Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison (1943-1971) was an American poet better known as the lead singer and one of the songwriters for the rock group The Doors. While his poetry did not garner as much interest or fame as his music, Morrison took great care in his poetic efforts, which were often incorporated into his musical performances and adopted as lyrics in his songs. The French Literature scholar Wallace Fowlie writes in his book Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel as Poet, “Several times in the last two years of his life, Jim Morrison said to close friends that he hoped to be remembered as a poet rather than as a rock singer.”

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  • The Movie
  • The movie will begin in five moments.
  • The mindless voice announced
  • all those unseated will await the next show.
  • We filed slowly, languidly into the hall.
  • The auditorium was vast and silent
  • as we seated and were darkened, the voice continued.
  • The program for this evening is not new.
  • You’ve seen this entertainment through and through.
  • You’ve seen your birth your life and death
  • you might recall all of the rest.
  • Did you have a good world when you died?
  • Enough to base a movie on?
  • I’m getting out of here.
  • Where are you going?
  • To the other side of morning.
  • Please don’t chase the clouds, pagodas.
  • Her cunt gripped him like a warm, friendly hand.
  • It’s alright, all your friends are here.
  • When can I meet them?
  • After you’ve eaten
  • I’m not hungry.
  • Uh, we meant beaten.
  • Silver stream, silvery scream.
  • Oooooh, impossible concentration.
  • Stoned Immaculate
  • I’ll tell you this...
  • No eternal reward will forgive us now.
  • For wasting the dawn.
  • Back in those days everything was simpler and more confused.
  • One summer night, going to the pier.
  • I ran into two young girls.
  • The blonde one was called Freedom.
  • The dark one, Enterprise.
  • We talked and they told me this story.
  • Now listen to this...
  • I’ll tell you about Texas radio and the big beat.
  • Soft driven, slow and mad.
  • Like some new language.
  • Reaching your head with the cold, sudden fury of a divine messenger.
  • Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god.
  • Wandering, wandering in hopeless night.
  • Out here in the perimeter there are no stars.
  • Out here we is stoned.
  • Immaculate.
Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison (1943-1971) was an American poet better known as the lead singer and one of the songwriters for the rock group The Doors. While his poetry did not garner as much interest or fame as his music, Morrison took great care in his poetic efforts, which were often incorporated into his musical performances and adopted as lyrics in his songs. The French Literature scholar Wallace Fowlie writes in his book Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel as Poet, “Several times in the last two years of his life, Jim Morrison said to close friends that he hoped to be remembered as a poet rather than as a rock singer.”

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