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James Douglas Morrison
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An Excerpt from "An American Prayer"
known to fans as
"The Severed Garden"
Wow I'm sick of doubt 
Live in the light of certain 
South 
Cruel Bindings 
The servants have the power 
dog-men & their mean women 
pulling poor blankets over 
our sailors 
I'm sick of dour faces 
Staring at me from the T.V.  
Tower. I want roses in 
my garden bower, dig? 
Royal babies, rubies 
must now replace aborted 
Strangers in the mud 
These mutants, blood-meal 
For the plant that's plowed 

They are waiting to take us into 
                   The Severed Garden 

Do you know how pale and wanton thrillful 
                   comes death on a strange hour 
                   unannounced, unplanned for 
like scaring over-friendly guest you've 
                   Brought to bed 
Death makes angels of us all 
                    & gives us wings 
where we once had shoulders 
                    smooth as raven's 
                                  claws 

No more money, no more fancy dress 
This other kingdom seems by far the best 
Until it's other jaw reveals incest 
I will not go 
Prefer a Feast of Friends 
To the Giant Family

 
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