William S Burroughs – Lawrence, Kansas, November 4, 1996 – Photo by Allen Ginsberg -among the last images of Burroughs that Allen recorded. Burroughs died the following year – photo – courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate
The great William Seward Burroughs II died on this day, August 2nd, 1997
Unforgettable Bill
Here’s his friend, John Giorno, in Antonello Faretta‘s 2007 film, declaiming his poem/remembrance, “The Death of William Burroughs”
The man himself gone but his vision and his words live on (his dystopia prophetic) with ever-increasing relevance.