Cut-Up Poems: 2019

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These are poems I wrote in 2019 using William S. Burroughs’ cut-up method. You take a sheet or two of text, cut it up, and then rearrange the pieces to create new text. There was so much chaos in the world at the time that the only way I could express it was through chaotic art.

1.

“Surely things will change after this,”