RKS Literature: “Tooth Money Thievery” (William S. Burroughs)

“She was constantly saving money to have teeth out, but somehow she always spent the money on something else. Either she got drunk on it, or she gave it to someone in a in irrational fit of generosity. She was a mark for every con artist in Tangier because she was known to have moneyContinue reading “RKS Literature: “Tooth Money Thievery” (William S. Burroughs)”

RKS Literature: “Beautiful Mouth But not so Beautiful Teeth!” (William S. Burroughs)

“When she opened her mouth to speak, she revealed horrible teeth, gray, carious, repaired rather than filled with pieces of steel-some actually rusty, other of copper covered with green verdigis. The teeth were abnormally large and crowded over each other. Broken, corroded braces stuck to them like an old barbed wire fence.” William S. Burroughs,Continue reading “RKS Literature: “Beautiful Mouth But not so Beautiful Teeth!” (William S. Burroughs)”

RKS Literature: “Quitting Junk and the Last Words of the Mad Dog Esposito Brothers” (William S. Burroughs)

“Lee walked about the room. ‘I have to quit,’ he said over and over, feeling the gravity pull of junk in his cells. He experienced a moment of panic. A cry of despair wrenched his body: I have to get out of here: I have to make a break.’ As he said those words, heContinue reading “RKS Literature: “Quitting Junk and the Last Words of the Mad Dog Esposito Brothers” (William S. Burroughs)”