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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, February 28, 1992                   TAG: 9202280160
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: E-1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BETH MACY
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This time last year, Stacy Lazarus was bored. There was nothing on TV but the Persian Gulf War, and business at his Petersburg record store was slow.
Lazarus, 35, did what any other bored Jim Morrison fan might do: He got out his Ouija board and contacted the dead Doors singer.
The result is the newly released "Morrison: Poems From the Other Side," published by Lazarus and his wife, Deborah. The Lazaruses are deadly serious about the poems, which they say were channeled from Morrison to them through the board and occasionally directly to Deborah, a psychic.
Aside from the poetry, Morrison also offered these posthumous insights:
He hated Oliver Stone's movie about him. (He was particularly testy about the part that said Robby Krieger, not Morrison, wrote the lyrics to "Light My Fire." One of his new poems is called "Stoned to the Bone," about his hate for Oliver Stone.)
He loves the group R.E.M.
And he is still as intense, argumentative, creative and moody as he ever was.
Communicating with Morrison "was sorta just like talking to someone on the phone," says Stacy, who has also conversed with the spirits of Chico Marx and Boris Karloff.
The book is available by sending a $5 check to Real Records, P.O. Box 3135, Petersburg 23805.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB