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William S. Burroughs

Anger, from the portfolio The Seven Deadly Sins

1991

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  • Artist William S. Burroughs (American, 1914–1997)
  • Title Anger, from the portfolio The Seven Deadly Sins
  • Date 1991
  • Medium Screenprint
  • Edition description 29/90
  • Dimensions unframed |
    framed | 46 7/8 x 32 7/8 x 2 in.
  • Credit line University purchase, Art Acquisition Fund, 1995
  • Object number WU 1995.16.03 b

4/13/1995
Shearburn Fine Art, William

Inscription Textual component: I’m mad sick in the moon room his toe the greatest / tribute to the land mail the brace going to learn that / space aliens I’m madder than a snail. Salt lizards and / slimy scaly things response to those turban-headed pop / Korean slimeball need and I want all you bellied fig- / gobblers and turn them into castration message land and / clear with some grass shears like houseflies and Uncle / Ed Anger to teach horror blooded Americans who was / peachy keen on the idea damned coward soprano / castrating terrorists till his fish face full to know what / you think. Ed Anger will never clear the holster / self-righteous and bigoted and yes peeled by Jimmy the / only ugliness like a dog rolls and alien period I’d have / dropped our national anthem on the surface of the moon / miss head pop singer from escaped alien fan mail making / me what the hell kind of an astornaut who just dropped / our national anthem about all the bleeding heart junk of / the free and the home of space alien baloney let’s face it / folks like you and me are tired space aliens are the real / thing flying over our lily-livered with big teeth and / sucking our own medicine yellow blubbering sniveling / wimps Ugly Ugly heroes in the only space alien is a / dead son my American on the Fourth of July / firecracker a bomb

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