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The Lords and The New Creatures
About this book
Originally published as two separate volumes in 1969, Jim Morrison’s first published volume of poetry gives a revealing glimpse of an era and the man whose songs and savage performances have left an indelible impression on our culture.
Intense, erotic, and enigmatic, Jim Morrison’s persona is as riveting now as the lead singer/composer “Lizard King” was during The Doors’ peak in the late sixties. His fast life and mysterious death remain controversial even to this day.
The Lords and the New Creatures, Morrison’s first published volume of poetry, is an uninhibited exploration of society’s dark side—drugs, sex, fame, and death—captured in sensual, seething images. Here, Morrison gives a revealing glimpse at an era and at the man whose songs and savage performances have left their indelible impression on our culture.
Intense, erotic, and enigmatic, Jim Morrison’s persona is as riveting now as the lead singer/composer “Lizard King” was during The Doors’ peak in the late sixties. His fast life and mysterious death remain controversial even to this day.
The Lords and the New Creatures, Morrison’s first published volume of poetry, is an uninhibited exploration of society’s dark side—drugs, sex, fame, and death—captured in sensual, seething images. Here, Morrison gives a revealing glimpse at an era and at the man whose songs and savage performances have left their indelible impression on our culture.
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THE NEW CREATURES
I
Snakeskin jacketIndian eyesBrilliant hairHe moves in disturbedNile InsectAir
II
You parade thru the soft summerWe watch your eager rifle decayYour wildernessYour teeming emptinessPale forests on verge of lightdecline.More of your miraclesMore of your magic arms
III
Bitter grazing in sick pasturesAnimal sadness & the daybedWhipping.Iron curtains pried open.The elaborate sun impliesdust, knives, voices.Call out of the WildernessCall out of fever, receivingthe wet dreams of an Aztec King.
IV
The banks are high & overgrownrich w/ warm green danger.Unlock the canals.Punish our sister’s sweet playmate distress.Do you want us that way w/ the rest?Do you adore us?When you return will youstill want to play w/ us?
V
Fall down.Strange gods arrive in fast enemy poses.Their shirts are soft marryingcloth and hair together.All along their arms ornamentsconceal veins bluer than bloodpretending welcome.Soft lizard eyes connect.Their soft drained insect cries erectnew fear, where fears reign.The rustling of sex against their skin.The wind withdraws all sound.Stamp your witness on the punished ground.
VI
Wounds, stags, & arrowsHooded flashing legs plungenear the tranquil women.Startling obedience from the pool people.Astonishing caves to plunder.Loose, nerveless ballets of looting.Boys are running.Girls are screaming, falling.The air is thick w/ smoke.Dead crackling wires dance poolsof sea blood.
VII
Lizard womanw/ your insect eyesw/ your wild surprise.Warm daughter of silence.Venom.Turn your back w/ a slither of moaning wisdom.The unblinking blind eyesbehind walls new histories riseand wake growling & whiningthe weird dawn of dreams.Dogs lie sleeping.The wolf howls.A creature lives out the war.A forest.A rustle of cut words, chokingriver.
VIII
The snake, the lizard, the insect eyethe huntsman’s green obedience.Quick, in raw time, servingstealth & slumber,grinding warm ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- The Lords: Notes on Vision
- The New Creatures
- About the Author
- Copyright