I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed the…

William S. Burroughs
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I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing. ✨ Naked Lunch. Book by William S. Burroughs, 1959.
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I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing. ✨ Naked Lunch. Book by William S. Burroughs, 1959.

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