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Cut ups are for everyone. Any body can make cut ups.
It is experimental in the sense of being something to do.
Right here write now. Not something to talk and argue about.
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Greek philosophers assumed logically
that an object twice as heavy as another object
would fall twice as fast. It did not occur to them
to push the two objects off the table and see how they fall.
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Cut the words and see how they fall.
Shakespeare Rimbaud live in their words.
Cut the word lines and you will hear their voices.
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Cut ups often come through
as code messages with special meaning for the cutter.
Table tapping? Perhaps. Certainly an improvement on the usual
deplorable performance of contacted poets through a medium.
-W.B.
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