in a cage;
Chatterton taking rat poison;
Hemingway's brains dropping into
the orange juice;
Pascal cutting his wrists
in the bathtub;
Artaud locked up with the mad;
Dostoevsky stood up against a wall;
Crane jumping into a boat propeller;
Lorca shot in the road by Spanish
troops;
Berryman jumping off a bridge;
Burroughs shooting his wife;
Mailer knifing his.
-that's what they want:
a God damned show
In 1951, William S. Burroughs accidentally shot and killed his wife in a drunken game of “William Tell” (when one’s supposed to shoot an apple off another person’s head) Though he managed to stay out of prison, this accident scarred him for life as he later expressed. 
 “So the death of Joan brought me in contact with the invader, the Ugly Spirit, and maneuvered me into a life long struggle, in which I have had no choice except to write my way out.”
What they want