f Congress would've been the only source."No doubt, Jim was becoming a writer. He had begun to keep journals, spiral notebooks that he would fill with his daily observations and thoughts. Jim's studies brought him across many of the dilemmas of these great writers. Through the alcoholism of Dylan Thomas, the homosexuality of Ginsberg, and the madness and addiction of so many more, Jim saw their pages become a mirror in which he saw his own reflection. The notion of poetry had now taken hold on the still young Jim Morrison.The greatly controversial lyrics and actions of the newly forming “Doors” were created by Jim's now corrupted mind. At the age of twenty, Jim was writing regularly. He quit film school at UCLA, and moved to the Venice Beach area. Through his alcoholic and psychedelic hazed mind ran the songs and lyrics of an unknown concert. As one song finished, the next one started. These songs became songs of The Doors. "Break on through," was his way of expressing the opening of the doors. His songs and poems were the historical collection of writings from great philosophers and poets alike. His notebooks and intellect are now the basis of The Doors and the foreshadow of his death. All of the pasts are now part of the present and the songs all come from the same root. Jim's adoption of Aldous Huxley's "Doors of Perception" was now his number one motto. The drugs taken were only to help open these many doors in his mind. Although his mind seems lost in the infinite drug world of the unknown, Jim Morrison was an "American Poet." His crave for knowledge was driven by his wondrous mind and only used drugs, not as an exit, but rather as an entrance. The world of Jim Morrison is not known well by anyone. Most see an alcoholic, others see an addict, and yet more see a deranged waste of a person, but for those who take the time to care, those who take the time to learn and understand will find out that behind t...
