Jim Morrison Lives In My Basement

Jim Morrison Lives In My Basement

Jim

Didn’t really

Die in

He actually

Moved back to

The states &

Drank alot of

Booze

Where no one

Recognized him

Or knew his

Name

Then one day

He showed up

On my doorstep

Asking for a

Notebook & a

Pen claiming

He was once

The Lizard King

And that’s

How it all

Began

So I let him

Move into

My basement

Where now he

Just sings old blues

Songs all day long

And quotes Rimbaud

& William Blake

He just

Drinks beer and

He never bathes

His old leather

Pants reeking

Stinking

Of pee

But his

Writing

His poetry

Is amazing

But mostly

All about his

Beard & magical

Realms where

Old guys who

Only have beards

Are kings

He’s strange

But he’s Jim

Last week

I gave him a

A Taylor Swift

CD just to

See what he

Would do

He uses it

As a drink

Coaster and

Is now convinced

That the end times

Are nigh

I agree

Published by R.M. ENGELHARDT POET AUTHOR WRITER

R.M. Engelhardt is a poet, writer and author who over the last two decades has published over 16 books of poetry including "Nod" "Logos" "Alchemy" & "The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems of R.M. Engelhardt. The founder of the Upstate NY organization Albany Poets & the Annual Poetry Celebration The Albany Word Fest he has through his ideas & visions helped to contribute a large amount of advocacy and creativity to the Spoken Word~Poetry Capital District scene and is the former host of the long running readings Vox, Propaganda, Listen & currently is creating a new resurrection of one of the area's most well known open mics for poetry and spoken word THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT in Troy, NY held on the last Wednesday evening of each month at the incredible nightclub/speak easy bar THE BERLIN IN TROY NY. His writing has also been published by many journals such as The Rye Whiskey Review, Red Fez, Rusty Truck, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Thunder Sandwich, The Hobo Camp Review, Full of Crow, on the Outlaw Poetry Network & in many many others. Look for his books "WHERE THE PEOPLE'S VISION PERISHES 2020" "DARK LANDS (2019 on LuLu, Amazon & At Barnes and Noble) The Resurrection Waltz, 2012 ( Infinity Press) & "COFFEE ASS BLUES & OTHER POEMS" ( 2018 Alien Buddha Press 2018) " DarkLands" 2019 & "Where There Is No Vision" 2020 and his new books, "WE RISE LIKE SMOKE" (2021) & Of Spirit, Ash & Bone (2022) all available on Amazon.com He is also the Editor of the small independent poetry press DeadMansPressInk. www.gentlemanoutsider.com *All Poems, Writings & Information Contained On This Blog Are The Property & Owned By The Author R.M. Engelhardt. © 2021 www.rmengelhardt.com View all posts by R.M. ENGELHARDT POET AUTHOR WRITER