His Gray eminence

by jazzcatalley

Posted to Utterances on 2001-06-21 14:40:00

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Burroughs, to me was a presence on the landscape
that was a very important part of my inner world, back in the late sixties, as a teenage misfit, i started being a stoner, all I did was listen to music and get bozoed, back then the music was damn good, Beatles, Stones, Jimi, Jim, Frank Zappa, and a whloe slew of others, i saw all those guys except the Beatles, at the tender age of 17 one day, at a friends house i found a copy of Naked Lunch, i was stoned and i started reading it, as soon as i opened the cover, i was blown away, the johnson illuminated mind of burroughs became a refuge for me, I was hooked, I became a burroughs
addict addicted to his algerbra of the absurd, his
landscapes of junk sick universes mirrored the insanity of society around me…and i read every book he wrote, I have read Naked Lunch at least five times over the years along with all the others, as i stated on here before, but i guess you did not respond, or did not see it, i also met Billy Burroughs once in a local hangout, and i had also read Speed and Kuntucky Ham…i also read Literary Outlaw twenty years ago…the day burroughs died i really went through the changes…William was there all those years, dim jerky far away…he stands, his gray shape surveying the western lands…when i read Naked Lunch i ate it, and i entered into a world where i fit in…