Peter Orlovsky & Jack Kerouac squinting in late-afternoon sun, Wm. S. Burroughs with eyeglasses watching prone in olive-green army-surplus jacket, Moroccan boys interested, Port & Custom-house in background, where Peter & I docked on Yugoslave freighter from N.Y. carrying mss. _Naked Lunch_ letters, four years accumulated. Jack speed-typed Burroughs' _Interzone_ word-hoard, his own _On the Road_ just published, Peter readying to write his "Frist Poem." Jack left Tangier for Paris about a week later, April 5, 1957.
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subject_titleBill Burroughs in back bedroom waiting for company, he’d arrived from South America in August & we stayed together in my apartment till December working on _Yage Letters_ and _Queer_ manuscripts – Ace Books’d printed first paperback _Junky_ edition that Spring. “I come home from work [at N.Y. World- Telegram, newspaper copyboy] 4:45 and we talk till one A.M. or later . . . am all hung up in a great psychic marriage with him for the month —,” so I wrote to Neal Cassady, September 4, 1953.
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