WRITERLY REWRITE 

“I know I am dead—
and you too.”
—Kells Elvins, William
Burroughs’ Harvard friend
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Writers are all dead—
we’re writing posthumously

We’re working from beyond—
the tomb with no commissions
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Philip K. Dick had the same—
past-life alt. history flashbacks

Like his Hugo Award winning—
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE
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Jack Kerouac and Dick were—
writers born KNOWING

They knew they were dead—
and that I was dead too
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They told me what I already knew—
the only thing you can tell anybody

I was dead and back again—
that’s what writers do