Jim Morrison

Poor Jim, Lizard King,

snake charmer

indestructible hedonist

poet

charlatan

in the twisted carnival

taking the ride

outlaw

hall of smoky mirrors

forest of dark shadows

alleys euthanized in the vein

haunting anthems lost in glass tinkle

prophet Dionysus torn to shreds

defier of authority

enscripted warrior of a time

from Whiskey-A-Go-Go womb

to world stage of defiance.

He hung up on his mother, after

he was famous...in Washington

for a concert.

"How was the conversation?"

a friend asked.

"I never want to talk to her again."

His father was an Admiral.

They couldn't let him, Jimi and 

Janice live....or Michael  or Prince.

David Crosby at Monterrey Pop,

six months later, telling his audience:

"And they killed Kennedy, your president...

and this is your government!"

Meanwhile, in Flanders field,

the poppies still in bloom.

(that was a crop out.)