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.
WE ARE ALL... HERE TO GO!
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