Friday, September 20, 2013

Poet In Residence



William Burroughs home

1927 Learnard Ave Lawrence KS

POET IN RESIDENCE

“When I started to write this 
companion text to Queer, I 
was paralyzed with a heavy 
reluctance, a writer’s block like 
a straitjacket. I glance at the 
manuscript of Queer and feel 
I simply can’t read it. My past 
was a poisoned river from which 
one was fortunate to escape.”
—William Burroughs, Queer
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I found it out there—
His typewriter in the weeds
It was pitiful

It was a Royal—
But didn’t work anymore
Now it’s on my desk

That was years ago—
My IBM Selectric 
Antiquated too

But now I use Word—
Publishing there on the Net
The screen’s ghostly glow



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