For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty.

Burroughs is featured on the 2000 compilation tribute album Stoned Immaculate on a track that pairs Jim Morrison yelping and groaning with Burroughs reading Morrison's poetry. : /ˈbʌroʊz/; also known by his pen name William Lee; (1914-02-05)February 5 1914 – August 2 1997(1997-08-02)) was an American novelist short story writer essayist painter and spoken word performer. Return to U.

Burroughs had one child William Seward Burroughs III (1947-1981) with his second wife Joan Vollmer. sodomy laws. S.