William S. Burroughs - My Protagonist Kim Carson paroles de chanson

paroles de chanson My Protagonist Kim Carson - William S. Burroughs



Uh, this is, uh,
From a Western in progress, entitled The Place of Dead Roads.
And my protagonist Kim Carson finds
Himself in deadly conflict with Mr.
Hart - the press tycoon, and Old Man Bickford - a beef and oil baron.
And Bickford has a special price on Kim's head,
Because Kim killed Old Man Bickford's son in a gunfight...
Real Western...
Yeah
For three days,
Kim camped on the Macy Tops, sweeping the valley with his binoculars.
A cloud of dust headed south told him
They figured he'd arrive south from Mexico.
He'd headed north instead, into a land of sandstone formations.
And everywhere caves pocked into the
Red rock like bubbles in boiling oatmeal.
Some of the caves had been lived in, at one time or another.
Rusty tin cans, pottery shards, cartridge cases.
Kim found an arrowhead, six inches long, chipped from obsidian.
And a smaller arrowhead of rose colored flint.
Dusk was falling and blue shadows gathered
In the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the east
Sangre de Cristo.
Blood of Christ.
Rivers of blood.
Mountains of blood.
Does Christ never get tired of bleeding?
It is raining in the Jimenez Mountains. "
It is raining Anita Huffington" - Last
Words of General Grant, spoken to his nurse.
Circuits in his brain flickering out like lightning in gray clouds
Pottery shards, arrowheads, rusting fish hooks.
You can see there was a cabin here once.
A hypodermic syringe glints in the sun
He holds the rose flint arrow head in his hand.
And he fondles the obsidian arrowhead, so fragile. "
Do they break every time they were used like bee stings?", he wonders.
Somebody made this arrowhead.
It had a creator long ago.
This arrowhead is the only proof of his existence.
So living things can also be seen as artefacts designed for a purpose.
So perhaps the human artefact had a creator?
Perhaps the stranded space traveller needed the human
Vessel to continue his voyage and he made it for that purpose?
He died before he could use it, he found another escape route.
This artefact shaped to fill a forgotten need,
Now has no more meaning or purpose than this arrow
Head without the arrow and the bow, the arm and the eye.
Or perhaps the human artefact was the creators'
Last card, played in an old game many light years ago
Chill in an empty space, Kim gathers wood for a fire.
The stars are coming out.
There's the Big Dipper.
His father points to Betelgeuse in the night sky over St.
Louis.
His fathers grey face on a pillow.
Helpless pieces in the game he plays on this checker board
Of nights and days - so fragile - shivers and gathers wood.
Slave gods in the firmament
He remembers his fathers' last words: "
Stay outta churches, son.
All I got a key to is the shit house...
And swear to me you will never wear a policeman's badge."
Hither and thither, moves and checks and slaves.
And one by one, back in the closet lays.
Rusty tin cans, pottery shards, cartridge cases,
Arrow heads, a hypodermic syringe glints in the sun




William S. Burroughs - The Best of William Burroughs from Giorno Poetry Systems

1 Twilight's Last Gleamings
2 103rd Street Boys
3 Benway
4 I Can Feel The Heat Closing In
5 Meeting Of International Conference Of Technological Psychiatry
6 In Mexico The Gimmick Is To Find A Local Junkie With A Government Script
7 The Laboratory Has Been Locked For Three Hours Solid
8 Dr. Benway Is Operating In An Auditorium Filled With Students
9 Fats Terminal Has Organized A Purple Ass Stick For Motorcyclists
10 Hassan Is A Notorious Liquifactionist
11 Where You Belong
12 What Washington? What Orders?
13 From Here To Eternity
14 The Evening News
15 I Was Travelling With The Intolerable Kid On The Nova Lark
16 The Unworthy Vessel
17 The Do-Rights
18 Ah Pook Is The Mayan God Of Death
19 Introducing John Stanley Hart, He Entered The Bar With The Best Intentions
20 When Did I Stop Wanting To Be President
21 What The Nova Convention Is All About
22 Keynote Commentar, Roosevelt After The Inauguration
23 The Chief Smiles
24 The Green Nun
25 Tio Mate Smiles
26 Tio Pepe
27 As Esperanza Turns To Go Inside; Tia Maria, Tio Gordo
28 A Top Level Conference Is In Progress
29 Firecracker (Excerpt)
30 Virus B-23
31 Doctor Pierson
32 The Name Is Clem Snide. Mr. Hartcouldn't Hear The Word Death
33 This Is Kim Carson
34 Just Like The Collapse Of Any Currency
35 The Purple Better One
36 M.O.B.
37 The Whole Tamale
38 My Protagonist Kim Carson
39 Salt Chunk Mary
40 Like Mr. Hart, Kim Has A Dark Side To His Character
41 Progressive Education
42 The Wild Fruits
43 Old Man Bickford
44 The Mummy Piece
45 The President
46 Colonel Bradfield
47 Every Man A God
48 Kim Like The Great Gatsby
49 Just Say No To Drug Hysteria (Excerpt)
50 Words Of Advice
51 Dinosaurs
52 Sexual Conditioning
53 Dead Souls
54 (The Cat Inside) Excerpts
55 Captain Clark Welcomes You Aboard
56 The Saints Go Marching Through All The Popular Tunes
57 Summer Will
58 Outside The Pier Prowled Like Electric Turtles
59 The Total Taste Is Here, News Cut-Ups
60 We See The Future Through The Binoculars Of The People
61 Just Checking Your Summer Recordings
62 Creepy Letter, Cut-Up At The Beat Hotel In Paris
63 Inching, Is This Machine Recording?
64 Handkerchief Masks, News Cut-Up
65 Word Falling, Photo Falling
66 Throat Microphone Experiment
67 It's About Time To Identify Oven Area
68 Last Words Of Hassan I Sabbah
69 I Was Fooling Around With These Tapes In Hotels




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