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- @BEGIN_FILE_ID.DIZTHE AMERICAN NIGHT - PARIS JOURNAL
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- - JIM MORRISON -
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- static const char Paris[] =
- {
- "So much forgetten already\n"
- "So much forgotten\n"
- "So much to forget\n\n"
- "Once the idea of purity\n"
- "born, all was lost\n"
- "irrevocably\n\n"
- "The Black Musician\n"
- "in a house up the hill\n\n"
- "Nigger in the woodpile\n"
- "Skeleton in the closet\n\n"
- "Sorry. Didn`t mean you.\n\n"
- "An old man, someone`s\n"
- " daughter\n\n"
- "Arises\n"
- "& sees us still in the room\n"
- "of off-key piano & bad\n"
- "paintings\n\n"
- "him off to work\n"
- "& new wife arriving\n\n\n"
- " (The candle-forests of\n"
- " Notre-Dame)\n\n"
- "beggar nuns w/moving\n"
- "smiles, small velvet sacks\n"
- "& cataleptic eyes\n\n"
- "straying to the gaudy\n"
- "Mosaic calendar\n"
- "Windows\n\n"
- "I write like this\n"
- " to seize you\n\n"
- "give me your love, your\n"
- "tired eyes, sad for\n"
- "delivery\n\n"
- "A small & undiscover`d\n"
- "park - we ramble\n\n"
- "And the posters scream\n"
- "safe revolt\n\n"
- "& the tired walls barely\n"
- "fall, graffiti into\n"
- "dry cement sand\n\n"
- "an overfed vacuum\n"
- "dust-clock\n\n"
- "I remembered freeways\n\n"
- "Summer, beside you\n"
- "Ocean - brother\n\n"
- "Storms passing\n\n"
- "electric fires in the night\n\n"
- "'rain, night, misery -\n"
- "the back-ends of wagons'\n\n"
- "Shake it! Wanda,\n"
- "fat stranded swamp\n"
- "Woman\n\n"
- "We still need you\n\n"
- "Shake your roly-poly\n"
- "Thighs inside that\n"
- "Southern tent\n\n"
- "So what.\n\n"
- "It was really wild\n"
- "She started nude & put\n"
- "on her clothes.\n\n"
- "An old & cheap hotel\n"
- "w/bums in the lobby\n"
- "genteel bums of satisfied\n"
- "poverty\n\n"
- "Across the street, a\n"
- "famous pool-hall\n"
- "where the actors meet\n\n"
- "former ace - home of\n"
- "beat musicians\n"
- "beat poets & beat\n"
- "wanderers\n\n"
- "in the Zen tradition\n"
- "from China to the\n"
- "Subway\n"
- " in 4 easy lifetimes\n\n"
- "Weeping, he left his pad\n"
- "on orders from police\n"
- "& furnishing hauled\n"
- "away, all records &\n"
- "momentos, & reporters\n"
- "calculating tears &\n"
- "curses for the press:\n\n"
- "'I hope the Chinese junkies\n"
- " get you'\n\n"
- "& they will\n"
- "for the poppy\n"
- "rules the world\n\n"
- "That handsome gentle\n"
- "flower\n\n"
- "Sweet Billy!\n\n"
- "Do you remember\n"
- "the snake\n"
- "your lover\n\n"
- "tender in the tumbled\n"
- "brush-weed\n"
- "sand & cactus\n\n"
- "I do.\n\n"
- "And I remember\n"
- "Stars in the shotgun\n"
- "night\n\n"
- "eating pussy\n"
- "til the mind runs\n"
- "clean\n\n"
- "Is it rolling, God\n\n"
- "in the Persian Night ?\n\n"
- "'There`s a palace\n"
- " in the canyon\n"
- " where you & I\n"
- " were born\n\n"
- " Now I`m a lonely Man\n"
- " Let me back into\n"
- " the Garden\n\n"
- " Blue Shadows\n"
- " of the Canyon\n"
- " I met you\n"
- " & now you`re gone\n\n"
- " & now my dream is gone\n"
- " Let me back into your Garden\n\n"
- " A man searching\n"
- " for lost Paradise\n"
- " Can seem a fool\n"
- " to those who never\n"
- " sought the other world\n\n"
- " Where friends do lie & drift\n"
- " Insanely in\n"
- " Their own private gardens'\n\n"
- "The cunt bloomed\n"
- "& the paper walls\n"
- "Trembled\n\n"
- "A monster arrived\n"
- "in the mirror\n"
- "To mock the room\n"
- "& its fool\n"
- "alone\n\n"
- "Give me songs\n"
- "to sing\n"
- "& emerald dreams\n"
- "to dream\n\n"
- "& I`ll give you love\n"
- "unfolding\n\n"
- "Sun\n\n"
- "underwater, it was\n"
- "immediately strange\n"
- "& familiar\n\n"
- "the black boy`s\n"
- "from the boat, fins & mask,\n\n"
- "Nostrils bled liquid\n"
- "crystal blood\n"
- "as they rose to surface\n\n"
- "Rose & moved strong\n"
- "in their wet world\n\n"
- "Below was a Kingdom\n"
- "Empire of still sand\n"
- "& yes, party-colored\n"
- "fishes\n"
- " - they are the last\n"
- " to leave\n"
- "The gay sea\n\n"
- "I eat you\n"
- "avoiding your wordy\n"
- "bones\n\n"
- "& spit out pearls\n\n"
- "The little girl gave\n"
- "little cries of surprise\n"
- "as the club struck\n"
- "her sides\n\n"
- "I was there\n"
- "By the fire in the\n"
- "Phonebooth\n\n"
- "I saw them charge\n"
- "& heard the indian\n"
- "war-scream\n\n"
- "felt their adrenalin\n"
- "of flight-fear\n\n"
- "the exhilaration of terror\n"
- "sloshed drunk in\n"
- "the flashy battle blood\n\n"
- "Naked we come\n"
- "& bruised we go\n"
- "nude pastry\n"
- "for the slow soft worms\n"
- "below\n\n"
- "This is my poem\n"
- "for you\n"
- "Great flowing funky flower`d beast\n\n"
- "Great perfumed wreck of hell\n\n"
- "Great good disease\n"
- "& summer plague\n\n"
- "Great god-damned shit-ass\n"
- "Mother-fucking freak\n\n"
- "You lie, you cheat,\n"
- "you steal, you kill\n\n"
- "you drink the Southern\n"
- "Madness swill\n"
- "of greed\n\n"
- "you die utterly & alone\n\n"
- "Mud up your braces\n"
- "Someone new in your\n"
- "knickers\n\n"
- "& who would that be ?\n\n"
- "You know\n\n"
- "You know more\n"
- "than you let on\n\n"
- "Much more than you betray\n\n"
- "Great slimy angel-whore\n"
- "you`ve been good to me\n\n"
- "You really have\n\n"
- "been swell to me\n\n\n"
- "Tell them you came & saw\n"
- "& look`d into my eyes\n"
- "& saw the shadow\n"
- "of the guard receding\n"
- "Thoughts in time\n"
- "& out of season\n"
- "The Hitchhiker stood\n"
- "by the side of the road\n"
- "& levelled his thumb\n"
- "in the calm calculus\n"
- "of reason.\n"
- };
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