My Mind Is Dead Weight

I went back to Mexico City
and saw Joan Burroughs leaning
forward in a garden chair, arms
on her knees…

Allen Ginsberg, Dream Record, June 1955 (via fuckyeahbeatgeneration)

Joan Burroughs was shot by her husband William S. Burroughs in Mexico in 1951. Story goes they were attempting to perform a William Tell act while intoxicated.

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