William S. Burroughs In Mexico City

They are both drunkards he and she

with glasses on their heads and .38 Specials.

He takes aim. He fires. Her head explodes

in shattered prose.

So matriculates the first William Tell

of the Apaches.

With ineffable grace buggering Massasoit,

extinguishing blunderbuss & turkey,

with a broken bough of swamp oak sweeping clean

behind each long-lying footstep of Pilgrim English.

E. A. Costa 28 January, 2015 Liberia, Costa Rica