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Here Jim relates memories from his birth in 1943 up to his leaving UCLA in 1965

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As I look back
over my life
I am struck by post
cards
Ruined snap shots
faded posters
Of a time, I can’t recall

Before the beach,
& birth,
was the home
for travellers
juvenile pen
a barracks in limbo
of souls
sans desire

They instil desire,
day by day
& night too
Parachute birth
1st moments as war
1st days of pain

Struggle toward
Consciousness

I am a Scot, or so
I’m told. Really
the heir of Mystery
Christians
The child of a
Military family . . . .

1st early memories
— attention-getting
baby
hide from mother
& elephant walk
back thru time to that child
again, staring rotten
thru the fence at the angels
next door

early memories
Asthma
Albuquerque lawn chairs
& lock’d in garage
shelves w/girl
Beautiful Mexican girl –
her mother
May dance –
lost shoe
“Bad boy” –
No, he’s a good boy
Think of Nothing – get what you want
The Mail Box

I initiated dirt-clod
fights in the canyon
& got bombed
in the stomach by rocks

Parachutes from
silk handkerchief

Kites

Snake in the Glen

“But they were picking
on the little kids”

I told stories & led
Treasure hunts for children

I led bicycle packs
chasing girls home from
school & delighted in
spanking them

I rebelled against church
after phases of
fervor

I curried favor in school
& attack’d the teachers

I was given a
desk in the corner
I was a fool
&
The smartest kid
in class

I created a mock treasure
Tried to get blood
To hide in woods near school
a monitor stopt me

Walks in D.C. in
Negro streets. The library
& book stores. Orange
brick in warm sun.
The books & poets magic

Then sex gives greater stimulation
Than you’ve ever known &
all peace & books lose their
charm & you are thrown
back on the eye of vision

chooks –
Depantsing –
fights –
Blue Bus
etc.

Trying to have a ducktail

asserted myself by wit

I have tried to learn more about
homos but it’s not easy to discuss.

This is true about sex in general,
even more than philosophy or religion

Morés change – but not the mystery

History of Rock
coinciding w/my
Adolescence

Came to LA
to Film School

I was never really
much of a doper

Acid popular, taken at least once or twice
by most everyone I knew
“grinding your wheels”

I can attest to its power. Saw many
astonishing things

Venice Summer

Drug Visions

Roof top songs

The early Notebook
Lost Notebooks

Watching Elvis on T.V.
humorous Rock & Roll riots

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from James Douglas Morrison: As I Look Back, released May 8, 2023

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