RIP Jim Carroll

Apparently drugs do kill you. Sometimes it just takes awhile. He died of a heart attack. He was 60.

Poetry

• Organic Trains (1967)
• 4 Ups and 1 Down (1970)
• Living at the Movies (1973)
• The Book of Nods (1986)
• Fear of Dreaming (1993)
• Void of Course: Poems 1994-1997

Prose

• The Basketball Diaries (1978)
• Forced Entries (1987)

That's him in the middle of the song reciting his poem.