Minutes to Go

[Cramulus]

this is a poem by bobby gysin
it inspired burroughs

         and I like it a lot too






Minutes to Go

the hallucinated have come to tell you that yr utilities
are being shut off         dreams monitored,        thought directed,
sex is shutting down everywhere     you are being sent.

all word are taped.     agents everywhere.
marking down the live ones       to exterminate.

they are turning out the lights

no      they are not evil,     nor the devil,    but men
on a mission     with a spot of work to do.

this,     dear friends,     they intend to do on you.

you have been offered a choice      between liberty and
freedom    and   No! you can not have both.

the next step is    everyone into space    but it has been
a long dull wait      since the last tower of babel,
that first derisive visit of the      paraclete.

let's not hear that noise again      and again.

that may well be     the last word     anywhere.

this is not the beginning.     in the beginning was the word,
the word has been in for a too     long time,
you in the word and      the word in you


we are out
you are in

we have come to let you out

here and now we will show you        what you can do
with and to
the word
the words
any word
all the words

Pick a book,    any book,    cut it up
cut up
prose
poems
newspapers
magazines
the bible
the koran
the book of moroni
la-tzu
confucius
the bhagavad gita
anything
letters
business correspondence
ads
all the words

slice down the middle,     dice into sections
according to taste
chop in some bible,     pour on some Madison Avenue
prose
shuffle cards,    toss like confette
taste it like piping hot     alphabet soup

pass yr friends' letters,     yr office carbons
through any such sieve     as you may find or invent.

you will soon see     just what they really are
saying.     this is the terminal method for
finding the truth.

piece together a masterpiece     a week.
use better materials      more highly charged words.

there is no longer a need      to drum up a season of
geniuses,     be your own agent     until we deliver
the machine     in commercially reasonable quantities.

we wish to announce     that while we esteem
this to be truly     the American Way
we have no commitments     with any government
groups

the writing machine     is for everybody,
do it yourself     until the machine comes.
here is the system       according to us.

[LMNO]

WE ARE ALL... HERE TO GO!
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