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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