Our Love Become a Funeral Pyre

The true Rock'n'Roll fan would make the pilgrimage to Pére Lachaise with the sole purpose of seeing the "grave" of Doors front man Jim Morrison. There is reason for putting the word grave in quotations. Morission moved to Paris three months before he died in an effort to avoid publicity and focus on his writing. He was only 27 when he died, and just two people, his girlfriend Pamela Coursin and the police officer, actually claim to have seen his dead body. Only a few days before he died he told his band members that he planned on faking his own death in order to avoid publicity. He said that he would move to Africa and send his band members letters under the name "Mr Mojo Risin" if he did so successfully. No one in his band ever go such letters. Adding even more conspiracy to the theory, Pamela Coursin has told more than four different randitions of how he died; heroine, cocaine, heart failure etc. French law prohibits the autopsy of a person whose alleged cause of death was not criminal, and so no autopsy was performed. I'm quite sure he's hanging out somewhere in Africa with the real Paul McCartney, Buddy Holly, and Ronnie van Zant. The inscription below his name is greek: KATA TON DAIMONA EAYTOY, which means, "down with his own demons". Lovely. There used to be a bust atop his headstone but it was stolen. That, and a lot of grafiti, lead to the fence and the 24 hour guard next to his grave.