1th April 1998



Rozz was found hanged on 1 April 1998.
He was found by Ryan, his roommate in their West Hollywood apartment. He did not leave a suicide note and it is not known why Rozz would have wanted to take his own life.
It is known that his alcoholism was beginning to affect him badly, but like his drug addictions, he had always managed to get through any physical and emotional problems that he had. Many of his friends believe that the date had a deeply personal significance for Rozz.
A memorial was held at the El Rey Theatre shortly after his death, and a small gathering of family and friends offered his ashes to the earth at Runyon Canyon.
There is now a permanent memorial niche in the columbarium section of Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
He was greeted in the afterlife by poet namesakes William Burroughs and William Carlos Williams.
The three exchanged pleasantries, trifling over writing techniques, but as one might expect, Rozz soon went looking for Adolf Hitler and Jeffrey Dahmer.
To this day, he entertains both of them over vodka and cigarettes in the one thousand three hundred and thirty forth circle of Hell.

We should all be so lucky.




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