On July 3, 1971, 27-year-old The Doors frontman Jim Morrison was found dead in the bathtub of his Paris apartment.
spoken word
The Spiritual Dawn
VITAMINS AND ROUGHAGE
Strong ankled, sun burned, almost naked,The daughters of CaliforniaEducate reluctant humanists;Drive into their skulls with tennis ballsThe unhappy realizationThat nature is still stronger than man.The special Hellenic privilegeOf the special intellect seeps outAt last in this irrigated soil.Sweat of athletes and juice of loversAre stronger than Socrates’ hemlock;And the games of scrupulous EuclidVanish in the gymnopaedia.-by Kenneth Rexroth (1905 – 1982)