Jim+Morrison

=JIM MORRISON= By: Zena Smith

Date of Birth: December 8th, 1943 Date of Death: July 3rd, 1971

Jim Morrison was born on December 8th, 1943 in Melbourne, Florida. Jim Morrison has a younger sister, Anne Robin, and a younger brother, Andrew Lee Morrison. His father was in the United States Navy, so the family traveled alot. In 1958 Jim attended Alameda High School in California. He graduated at George Washington High School in the year of 1961. After graduating from UCLA in 1965, Morrison and Manzarek were the first two members of a band called The Doors. This is where Morrison began writing poetry and songs. Morrison was the lyricist of the band, but many other band members made contributions. When the band wrote songs, they would create the original poem into a rock beat. Is this how all songs form? Morrison also flew solo, where he would film and write poems such as __Without A Trace, Seven Seconds, Last Moment,__ and more.

**WITHOUT A TRACE** We come to this world desperately, we die in a fear of being dead. Who could make up such a cruelty? I would like to send a message to the drafter: Your plan is successfully done, I’ll disappear without a trace, I promise.

At the first second, when you came into being you join us in a strange world. At the second second you grow up slowly you stare at the universal in wonderment. At the third second you’re still too young you believe false dreams you’re guided the wrong ways. At your fourth second you’re lonely just like a stone you choose somebody to love forever. At the fifth second you fight against thousands even you are not alone nobody helps you. At the sixth second an invisible army strangles down your body you’re gripped by the hand of time. At the seventh second you die. We forget you.
 * SEVEN SECONDS**

You lost the taste of yesterday, you get the progress of tomorrow, you cover your perspired face with your palm. Your creaking laughing reminds me the train, which we travel on, to the last moment.
 * LAST MOMENT**