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- @BEGIN_FILE_ID.DIZTHE AMERICAN NIGHT - POEMS FROM THE VILLAGE
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- - JIM MORRISON -
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- static const char Village[]=
- {
- "\033b\0338IN THAT YEAR...\n\n"
- "In that year we had a great visitation of energy.\n\n"
- "Back in those days everything\n"
- "was simpler & more confused.\n"
- "One summer night, going\n"
- "To the pier, I ran into\n"
- "2 young girls. The\n"
- "blonde was called Freedom,\n"
- "the dark one, Enterprise.\n"
- "We talked, & they told\n"
- "me this story.\n\n"
- "\033b\0338& THE COOL FLUTTERING...\n\n"
- " & the cool fluttering rotten wind\n"
- " & a child`s hand-print on\n"
- " picture window\n"
- " & the gunhocked held\n"
- " on the shoulder\n"
- " & fire in the night\n"
- " waiting, in the darkened house\n"
- " for the cruel insane breed\n"
- " from town to arrive\n"
- " & come poking thru smoke\n"
- " & the fuel & ashes for milk\n"
- " & the evil leer on their faces\n"
- " barking w/triumph\n"
- " Who will not stop them ?\n"
- " The hollow tree, where\n"
- " we three slept & dreamed\n"
- " in the movement of\n"
- " whirling shadows & grass\n"
- " Tired rustle of leaves\n"
- " An oldman stirs the dancers\n"
- " w/his old dance\n"
- " darkening\n"
- "swift shadows lean on the\n"
- " meat of forests\n"
- " to allow breathing\n"
- " Gently they stir\n"
- " Gently rise\n"
- " The dead are new-born\n"
- " awakening\n"
- " w/ravaged limbs\n"
- " & wet souls\n"
- " Gently they sigh\n"
- " in rapt funeral amazement\n"
- " Who called this dead to dance ?\n"
- " Was it the young woman\n"
- " learning to play the 'Ghost\n"
- " Song' on her baby grand\n"
- " Was it the wilderness children ?\n"
- " Was it the Ghost-God himself,\n"
- " stuttering, cheering,\n"
- " chatting blindly ?\n"
- " ---- I called you up to\n"
- " anoint the earth.\n"
- " I called you to announce\n"
- " sadness falling like\n"
- " burned skin\n"
- " I called you to wish\n"
- " you well, to glory in\n"
- " self like a new monster\n"
- " & now I call on you\n"
- " to pray:\n\n"
- "\033b\0338LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF MY COCK\n\n"
- "Lament for my cock\n"
- "Sore & crucified\n"
- "I seek to know you\n"
- "acquiring soulful wisdom\n"
- "you can open walls of\n"
- "mystery\n"
- "strip-show\n\n"
- "How to get death\n"
- "On the morning\n"
- "show\n\n"
- "T.V. death\n"
- "which the child\n"
- "absorbs\n\n"
- "death-well\n"
- "mystery\n"
- "which makes\n"
- "me write\n\n"
- "Slow train\n"
- "The death of my cock\n"
- "gives life\n\n"
- "Guitar player\n"
- "Ancient wise satyr\n"
- "Sing your ode\n"
- "to my cock\n"
- "caress its lament\n"
- "stiffen & guide\n"
- "us\n\n"
- "Lost cells\n"
- "The knowledge of cancer\n"
- "To speak to the heart\n"
- "& give the great gift\n"
- "words\n\n"
- "power\n\n"
- "trance\n\n"
- "This stable friend\n"
- "& the beasts of his zoo\n"
- "wild, haired chicks\n"
- "each color connects\n"
- "to create the boat\n"
- "which rocks the race\n\n"
- "could any hell be more\n"
- "horrible than now\n"
- "& real\n\n"
- "'I pressed her thigh\n"
- "& death smiled'\n\n"
- "death, old friend\n"
- "death & my cock\n"
- "are the world\n\n"
- "I can forgive\n"
- "my injuries\n"
- "in the name of\n"
- "wisdom\n\n"
- "luxury\n\n"
- "romance\n\n"
- "Sentence upon sentence.\n"
- "Words are healing.\n\n"
- "Words got me the wound\n"
- "& will get me well\n\n"
- "If you believe it.\n\n"
- "All join now in lament\n"
- "for the death of my cock\n"
- "a tongue of knowledge\n"
- "in the feathered night\n\n"
- "boys get crazy in the head\n"
- "& suffer\n"
- "I sacrifice my cock\n"
- "in the altar\n"
- "of silence\n\n"
- "\033b\0338A WAKE\n\n"
- "A wake\n"
- "Shake dreams from your hair\n"
- " My pretty child, my sweet one\n"
- "Choose the day, & the sign\n"
- " of your day,\n"
- " 1st thing you see.\n\n"
- "A burnt tree, like a giant\n"
- " primeval bird, leaf,\n"
- "dray & bitter, crackling tales\n"
- " in its warm waves.\n"
- "Sidewalk gods will do for you.\n"
- " The forest of the neighborhood,\n"
- "The empty lost museum, &\n"
- "The mesa, & the Mt.`s pregnant\n"
- "Monument above the newstand\n"
- " where the children hide\n"
- " When school ends\n\n"
- "\033b\0338CURSES & INVOCATIONS\n\n"
- "Weird bait-headed mongrels\n"
- "I keep expecting one of you\n"
- " to rise\n"
- "large buxom obese queens\n"
- "garden hogs & cunt\n"
- " Veterans\n"
- "quaint cabbage saints\n"
- "Shit horders & individualists\n"
- "drap-strip officials\n"
- "Tight-lipped losers\n"
- "& lustful fuck salesmen\n"
- "My militant dandies\n"
- "all strange order of monsters\n"
- "hot on the rail of the\n"
- " wood vine\n"
- "We welcome you to our\n"
- " Procession\n\n"
- "\033b\0338THE CROSSROADS\n\n"
- "Meeting you at your parent`s gate\n"
- "We will tell you what to do\n"
- "What you have to do\n"
- "to survive\n\n"
- "Leave the rotten towns\n"
- "of your father\n"
- "Leave the poisoned wells\n"
- "& bloodstained streets\n"
- "Enter now the sweet forest\n\n"
- "\033b\0338I WALKED THRU...\n\n"
- "I walked thru the panther`s living room\n"
- "And our summer together ended\n"
- " Too soon\n"
- "Stronger that farther\n"
- "Strangled by night\n"
- "Rest in my sun burst\n"
- "Relax in her secret wilderness\n"
- "This is the sea of doubt\n"
- "which threads harps\n"
- " unwithered\n"
- " & unstrung\n"
- "Its the brother, not the past\n"
- "who turns sunlight into glass\n"
- "It`s the valley\n"
- "It`s me\n\n"
- "Testimony from\n"
- "a strange witness\n\n"
- "\033b\0338THE FLOWERING\n\n"
- "The flowering\n"
- " of good-like people\n"
- "in the muted air\n"
- " would seem\n"
- " strange\n"
- "to an intruder\n"
- "of certain size\n\n"
- "but this is all we have left\n"
- " to guide us\n"
- "Now that He is gone\n\n"
- "\033b\0338THE WILD WHORE LAUGHS\n\n"
- "The Wild whore laughs\n"
- " like an ancient spinster\n"
- "Crone, we see you, come again\n"
- " in the mind\n"
- "I lie like fever\n"
- " Dancing your nubile hush\n"
- "willing to be possessed\n"
- " untold stories\n"
- " dare injuns rise\n"
- "Trampled, like red-skins\n"
- " cruel blow & the damaged\n"
- "rod has risen again\n"
- " in the East\n"
- " like a star\n"
- " on fire\n"
- };
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