Happy Halloween

I don't know why William Burroughs is smiling here.
Maybe it is because before he was photographed close after
when he'd had his latest shot of methadone, a drug that by omission
he denied he was dependent on for 38 years, where interviewers colluded
with him by them never asking him about it. By his evasions  
he earned his place as the master of the uncanny phrase,
and as an unsettling dark humourist who set standards
of dark humour that were impossible to follow.