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Monday Morning Memo

Jim-Morrison-Grave_April-2015

The wizard has been trying to teach me about writing and about photography.
He says the key to both is in “what you leave out.” He says the art of careful omission
awakens the imagination of both viewer and reader. In the language I added to the
photo above – which I snapped, by the way – you will notice I chose not to use
the words “musician” or “died” or even “years-old.”
You added those words yourself.

Sometimes I pay attention to the wizard
when I’m pretending not to.
– Indy

14 million people have taken this 7-minute road trip with Jim Morrison.
You really should make it 14 million and one.|
You get to ride shotgun while Jim drives and sings,
unaware he’ll be dead within a year. Heroine.
Wow.

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Sane, sane, they’re all insane, fireman’s blind, the conductor is lame

A Cincinnati jacket and a sad-luck dame

Hanging out the window with a bottle full of rain

Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands

Said roar, roar, the thunder and the roar

Son of a bitch is never coming back here no more

The moon in the window and a bird on the pole

We can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal

Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands

Said steam, steam, a hundred bad dreams

Going up to Harlem with a pistol in his jeans

A fifty-dollar bill inside a Palladin’s hat

And nobody’s sure where Mr. Knickerbocker’s at

Roar, roar, the thunder and the roar

Son of a bitch is never coming back here no more

Moon in the window and a bird on the pole

Can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal

Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands

I said steam, steam, a hundred bad dreams

Going up to Harlem with a pistol in his jeans

A fifty-dollar bill inside a Palladin’s hat

And nobody’s sure where Mr. Knickerbocker’s at

Shine, shine, a Roosevelt dime

All the way to Baltimore and running out of time

Salvation army seemed to wind up in the hole

They all went to heaven in a little row boat

“

- Tom Waits

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