A Short List of Reasons Why No One Ever Confused Me With William S. Burroughs

I haven’t shot my wife
	neither accidentally or otherwise.

I didn’t sleep with Allen Ginsberg
	though I get the feeling he would have liked me.

I wasn’t born until he was fifty years old
	and he was definitely not my grandfather.

I wouldn’t have written Naked Lunch
	yet I think I understand it as well as he did.

I don’t quite have his obsession with penises
	but has anyone ever had, really?

I couldn’t have been a member of the Beat Generation
	see #3 above.

I am not William S. Burroughs
	was he ever confused with me?

Philip Athans

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Editor and author Philip Athans has been a driving force behind varied media including Alternative fiction & poetry magazine and Wizards of the Coast. He lives and works in the Pacific Northwest.

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