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- Dharma Bumming -
- From Tales of Cafe Apollinaire -
by Gordon Coombes
At Café Apollinaire William Burroughs recites
newly composed passages
of visions of madness
of drug induced side-tracks distractions
of heroine & morphine of speed
paranoia & distortions
of time & space
of thoughts jumbled about
in his mental stew
an enigma a mystery
to be unraveled
to enter into it to feel it all
pain misery joy
to leave it not as sane as before
traveling across the border into Interzone
as tourist or citizen
as double agent or vaudeville comic
doing the old shtick
spinning out routines
playing William Tell with his wife
till it got too real
comes out of the closet
telling everyone he is Queer
pumping Heroin & anything he can find
into his blood stream to encourage
his manic paranoid hallucinogenic
stream of consciousness
writing streams of words
tied together with the flimsiest fragile threads
pull on one end it unravels
cutting & pasting novels together
pages flying like birds off of his typewriter
swirling around the room
some escape out the window
into the streets
as free as butterflies-
In the Café Apollinaire
visions run rampant
in the flaming eyes
& flaring nostrils of Charles Bukowski's
wild horses running over the hills
pulling another day from under our feet-
From Andy Warhol working over-time
at the Factory producing giant-sized paintings
of green Coke bottles & a thousand cans of soup
to Marilyn Munroe's face breasts & butt
reprinted on ten thousand silk-screens
a genius or charlatan
avant-garde or assembly line art
for the masses-
Some come to Café Apollinaire everyday
obsessed by the intricate
& unintelligible Glass Bead Game
challenging Herman Hess
trying to beat him at his own game
Gunter Grass sits with a midget drummer
watching a hundred television screens
to numb his angst-
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