Death Needs Time For What It Kills To Grow In

The writer and poet William S. Burroughs lived a purposefully varied and sordid life.

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Of the Beat poets, Burroughs takes an easy first as the creepiest and darkest of the bunch with his recurring apocolyptic themes.

Ah Pook The Destroyer, as recited here by the author, proffers an answer to the posed the question of "Who really gave that order?" in regards to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

William S. Burroughs died on August 2, 1997, at the age of 83. Pretty good considering that the "Gentleman Junkie" was a regular user of heroin for over a decade.