Lizard King

Adonis Went to Paris to Die

By: Charles Giuliano - Jan 04, 2015

Lizard King

Cold February morning
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Asked officials
Ou est le tomb de Jim Morrison
Pointing
La a droit
Rude brusque answer
Pourquois
Soon knew why
On tombstones
Jim and arrows
Bronze bust long since gone
Died in a bathtub
Adonis
Past prime
Grave hemmed in
Cramped
Graffiti everywhere
Flowers and poems
Steady flow of visitors
Rock pilgrims
Riders of the storm
Playing guitars
Drinking smoking
Me taking pictures
Eventually an installation
Pimpled punk objected
In rough French
Slurred
Jim belongs to the youth of the world
You are old and fat
Moi cussed back
I was at Woodstock
Where were you
Milk sucking sot
Another kid said
Wow man really
Shoved the punk
Left screaming
Stoned by noon
Paris blues