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His vision is global and beyond: all-encompassing internally and externally. His way of life changed forever how we see not only heroin addicts, but also homosexuals, not to mention, artists in general, while also changing what was permissible in all forms of published print media.
At the end of his biological life, Burroughs said that he was trying to write his way out of death. This play, which may be best adapted to the screen, is an experiment in journalism on the relatively new medium of computer screen. (May 5, 2001)
A mob of pupils pinned to the pulsation of novae spinning the vision of vinyl of samples that flicker the wounded galaxies of the diamond needle providing the soundtrack of the film biologic reality of a wild boy allergic to the stuff of human creation the dust flickering in the lens of the projection room hubcaps of  chrome syringes rolling the reality a tight rope of DNA celluloid cut-up diamondback wrapped around the arm of The Invisible Man issuing white noise wind crackling through palms all the way up to Fairfax in Little Jerusalem outside the door of Nova Express a cafe I named after a William S.
Burroughs book for Cary Long the owner a friend a visual artist a conceptualist who has a tattoo on one of his arms of a plumed quill symbolizing that the pen is mightier than the sword-to the person I'm going to do the job on tonight here The Invisible Man William S. the pen is a syringe to treat the virus that is language. Of course I will be inoculating this text with more punctuation once the interview gets under way-no matter that Burroughs has been dead for several years in the perception of the general viewing and reading public.
It is a special...
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