It was one their first reading tours in 1977.
They both gave excellent performances.
Afterwards I was out on the sidewalk by the side of the Lisner Auditorium and I saw Allen Ginsberg standing there all alone. I went up to him and told him I was a friend of Bill Burrough Jr. He seemed really pleased about meeting a friend of Billy's. He and I talked about Billy who was living in Boulder, Colorado at that time.
After a few minutes William Burroughs came out and Allen told him that I was a friend of Billy. Bill Sr. also was pleased to meet a friend of Bill Jr.'s.
I said something to Allen that made William Sr. smile and even chuckle or laugh a little bit.
I told Allen that during the Vietnam war period I thought that he(Allen)should have sat on top of the Washington Monument until the war was over.
And also that I always felt that he (Allen) should be reading his poems at half time at the Super Bowl.
I saw Burroughs smile. He got the jokes but Allen didn't.
Allen said that he had done his part against the war. "I was tear gassed", he said.
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