William Burroughs

CPC Readings

Friday, March 14, 1975
with Allen Ginsberg
Museum of Contemporary Art

Poetry by William Burroughs

Where Flesh Circulates

Its so hard to remember in the world – –   Weren’t you there?        Dead so you
think of ports – – Couldn’t reach flesh – –       Might have to reach flesh from
anybody – –

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Cold Lost Marbles

my ice skates on a wall
lustre of stumps washes his lavender horizon
he’s got a handsome face of a lousy kid
rooming-houses dirty fingers
whistled in the shadow
“Wait for me at the detour.”

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