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Gateway Town

...Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence, with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway. Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for ......Read the rest...

Categories: william burroughs, allusion, city, class, longing,
Form: Rhyme

Translation of Eric Mottram's Twentythird Legal By T Wignesan

...Translation of Eric Mottram’s Twentythird Legal by T. Wignesan Le vingt-troisième légal pendant la guerre le peuple devient obéissent de nouveau plein du respect (et) de la confiance les en......Read the rest...

Categories: william burroughs, america, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Marxism For Dummies 6

...As Arkansas could never be Alaska, so no-one wants Montana to be Maine. Could North Dakota claim to be Nebraska? Can Vachel Lindsay double for Hart Crane? If Sing Sing isn’t Appalachian Spring,......Read the rest...

Categories: william burroughs, satire,
Form: Sonnet

A Sonnet of Love

...A Sonnet If I knew you loved me, I would have killed you before, a sentence that makes no sense keep swirling around my head. William Burroughs could have said that or perhaps he has. I meet......Read the rest...

Categories: william burroughs, friendship, funny love, giggle,
Form: Sonnet

This Is Dedicated To the One I Love the Shirrells Question Mark

...TEAR, FEAR AND EVERY STARE Ah, I remember Baudelaire He oh so very rare Privileged were we to share the same air With genius penned on paper whose purpose was quite clear Yes, such a man was B......Read the rest...

Categories: william burroughs, fantasy
Form: Narrative

Yo Linda I Was Going To Send This To You First However

...I wasn't certain if it was even worthy of your talent and poetic voo-doo that you do so well ~f!~ TEAR, FEAR AND EVERY STARE Ah, I remember Baudelaire He oh so very rare P......Read the rest...

Categories: william burroughs, history
Form: Narrative