JAMAICA

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

JAMAICA

The hour of the wolf
has now ended. Cocks
crow. The world is built
up again, struggling in
darkness.

The child gives in to night-
Mare, while the grown
Man fears his fear.

I must leave this island,
Struggling to be born
from blackness.

Fear the good deep dark
American Night
Blessed is Night.

The flood has subsided
The movie panic & the
chauffeured drive
Thru the suburbs

Wild folks in weird dress
by the side of the hiway.

Some of the men wear
Tunics or short skirts.
The women posture on
Their porches in mock-
classical pose.

The driver aims the car
& it guides itself. Tunnels
click by overhead.

Love the deep green gloom
of American Night.

Love frightened corners,
Thrill to the wood-vine.

So much of it good
& so much quantity.
~~~

The Major’s boots are where
he left them.

Pseudo-plantation.

Period prints-white
& black boxing match.

A Negro Dance
~~~

The principal of the school holds his nose.
“A dead cow is in there. I wonder
why they haven’t sent someone to
remove it?”

A vulture streams by,
& another. The white tip
of his claw-like red beak
looks white, like meat.
Swift sad languorous
shadows.

The cat drinks little cat
laps form a sick
Turquoise swimming pool.

(Insane couplings out in the night.)

America, I am hook’d to your
Cold white neon bosom, & suck
snake-like thru the dawn, I
am drawn back home
your son in exile
in the land of Awakening
What dreams possessed you
To merge in the morning?

“I been in a daze”
~~~

A spot, a reef, behind
the nursery door, off
the main bedroom-
“Those are the major’s.”

The bed looms like a white
funereal butterfly barge
at one end of the room.,
hung w/nets & sails.

“We’re outlaws.”

“What church is that?”
“Church of God.”
white bandana, white tambourine

-Walking on the Water-

“In traditional style, we’ll
give them a good political
back-siding”-(laughter)

“Victimization”

a frog in the road
children in church
drums
Sun-Sun
lying like death
on the back seat
Revival.
~~~

A whore-house.
Lord John & Lady Anne’s.
Red-blooded Blue-blooded.
Queen’s bosom.
Is it The Princess?

Golden-blood, like me, he said,
folding the bill again neatly,
the Queen’s ear-a naked
cock stuck in her ass.

Ha Ha Ha Ha.

You’re no more innocent
than a turkey vulture.

A cannon.

The Negro slaves & the English
killed the Indians, & mixed
w/the Spanish, who were soon
forced out.

Yes, big battles

Boom. Boom.

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

This is an interesting piece of prose.
It is said that after Miami when the band went to their already organised break to Jamaica the rest of the band left Morrison isolated in a house all on his own except for the local staff.

It seems they were a bit miffed about Miami and his drunken behaviour so basically ignored him.
He was supposedly frightened whilst in the house and thinking that the locals would kill him.
So under this backdrop this poem emerged.

The child gives in to night-
Mare, while the grown
Man fears his fear.


As with everything Morrison we only have other peoples words for things but we do know The Doors blamed him for Miami and it's aftermath from accounts of people who were there such as Doug Cameron their roadie in his excellent book.

The events leading up to Miami are often overlooked so lets run through a few.
Mid 1968 Jim asks for a break from the band.
Ray Manzarek basically pressures Jim to 'give it 6 more months man!'
Somewhere in between this the band sell Jim out to Buick and lie about their part in it by blaming Holzman.
In December 1968 the English music press announces a major US tour for The Doors.
Now 6 month after Jim asks for a break a major US tour is announced.
It is hardly likely Jim Morrison organised this tour or wanted it after asking to take a break from The Doors.
He had just completed a major European tour during the 'give it 6 more months man!' period.

So here we see Jim faced with a gruelling tour after a gruelling Euro tour wanting a break.
So basically Miami solved that problem for him and The Doors blamed HIM.

Personally I side with the dead bloke and his actions, of which I am certain were deliberate and nothing to do with The Living Theatre and being drunk.
The Doors should bear the brunt of the consequences of Miami due to their intransigence regarding giving Jim a break.

It was an act of childish malice to leave him isolated during the Jamaica trip and the way they treated him afterwards compounded this.
Jim Morrison has had a bad rap this last 40 years from his so called friends culminating in the utterly abysmal misrepresentation called When You're Strange.