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)”

RKS Literature: The Solution to America’s Drug Problem (William S. Burroughs)

“If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk problem we start with the bottom of the pyramid: Addict in the Street and stop tilting quixotically for the “higher-ups” so called. All of whom areContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Solution to America’s Drug Problem (William S. Burroughs)”

RKS Literature: A Less Than Efficient Court System (William S. Burroughs)

“The County Clerk has his office in a huge red brick building known as the Old Court House. Civil cases are, in fact tried there, the proceeding inexorably dragging out until the contestants die or abandon litigation. This is due to the vast number of records pertaining to absolutely everything, all filed in the wrongContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Less Than Efficient Court System (William S. Burroughs)”

RKS Literature: Chez Robert Declines after Ketchup Riot (William S. Burroughs)

“Imperceptibly the quality of the food declines until he is serving literal garbage, the clients being intimidated by the reputation of Chez Robert to protest.     SAMPLE MENU The Clear Camel Piss Soup with boiled Earth Worms The Filet of Sun-Ripened Sting Ray basted with Eau de Cologne and garnished with Nettles The After-Birth SuprêmeContinue reading “RKS Literature: Chez Robert Declines after Ketchup Riot (William S. Burroughs)”

RKS Literature: Ketchup on Haute Cuisine Causes a Riot! (William S. Burroughs)

“(Alternative: A.J. whips out a bottle of ketchup and douses the haute cuisine.) Thirty gourmets stop chewing at once. You could have heard a soufflé drop. As for Robert, he lets out a bellow of rage like a wounded elephant, runs to the kitchen and arms himself with a meat cleaver….The sommelier snarls hideously, hisContinue reading “RKS Literature: Ketchup on Haute Cuisine Causes a Riot! (William S. Burroughs)”

RKS Literature: Americans Dying of Shame (William S. Burroughs)

“A.J.’s cover story? An international playboy and harmless practical joker. It was A.J. who put the piranha fish in Lady Sutton Smith’s swimming pool and dosed the punch with a mixture of yagé, hashish and yohimbine during a Fourth of July reception at the U.S. Embassy, precipitating an orgy. Ten prominent citizens-American, of course-subsequently diedContinue reading “RKS Literature: Americans Dying of Shame (William S. Burroughs)”

RKS Literature: The Modern Surgeon: (William S. Burroughs)

“Dr. Benway: ‘You young squirts couldn’t lance a pimple without an electric vibrating scalpel with automatic drain and suture…Soon we’ll be operating by remote control on patients we never see…We’ll be nothing but button pushers. All the skill is going out of surgery….All the know-how and make-do…Did I ever tell you about the time IContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Modern Surgeon: (William S. Burroughs)”

RKS Literature: The Puritanical and Opinionated Cannabis Smoker (William S. Burroughs)

“He was a ritual tea smoker and very puritanical about junk the way some teaheads are. He claimed tea put him in touch with supra blue gravitational fields. He had ideas on every subject: what kind of underwear was healthy, when to drink water and how to wipe your ass. He had a shiny redContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Puritanical and Opinionated Cannabis Smoker (William S. Burroughs)”