When fun dies, it becomes the Game. When sex dies, it becomes the Climax. All games contain the idea of ​​death. Jim Morrison. The Lords (1969) These are not words for a rock song. Of course, being a song writer does not presuppose one to be a poet, however, this is not the case for the leader of the Doors, who after composing and recording one of the most emblematic works in the history of rock music —L.A. Woman— renounced the lust of success to take refuge in Paris, the cradle of bohemia, and continue with her literary work. He had already published three books of poems: The New Creatures (1968), The Lords (1969) and An American Prayer (1970), but death caught this cursed shaman at the age of 27 with a drawer of unfinished notebooks and a stained name. for the scandal of embodying the revolution in himself. It was the 60s and America saw a generation undress that would mark the beginning of change. For his poetic contribution to American letters, overshadowed by his figure as a musical star, Jim Morrison was one of the precursors of a type of literature that, like the country, was still awakening.