William S. Burroughs
Gilt and
red plush. Rococo bar backed by pink shell.
The air is cloyed with a sweet evil substance like decayed honey. Men
and women in evening dress sip pousse-cafés through alabaster tubes. A Near
East Mugwump sit naked on a bar stool covered in pink silk. He licks warm honey
from a crystal goblet with a long black tongue. His genitals are perfectly
formed — circumcised cock, black shiny pubic hairs. His lips are thin and
purple-blue like the lips of a penis, his eyes blank with insect calm
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