Echo of Shadows

Poetry came into my life by Jim Morrison's biography "No One Here Gets out Alive" and by Bob Dylan's nasal renditions of his own poetry put to music. First, let's discuss Jim Morrison's biography. I was fifteen years-old when Jim Morrison's biography "No One Here Gets out Alive" caught my eye at a local K-Mart store. It was in paperback and although I had heard of The Doors, Morrison was a stranger to me at the time. Nevertheless, his picture on the front cover was of a cool, young, rebellious rock star, which is what most fifteen year-old male teenagers aspired to be. I had no money to purchase the book, so I went to my father to beg and plead for him to buy me the book that would change my life.