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The Third Entity: Volume 1 (cut-Up Poetry)
Current mood:  artistic
Category: Writing and Poetry
Freefall
control panels ejaculate
erection tenting metallic tongue and fingers
index finger pumping star exploding
cock hard and sphincter grips him powder blue
pre-come her arse her lasers phasers pussy of sprem float gem on strawberry
burying digits ground alien entity
tastes finger warm and wet dripping in spacesuit
urgent pussy glistening replies to transmission in starlight's pouring down her milky way
spray gluten ivory pearls being extraterrestrial globs
thighs tongue fucking in dual orbit
in zero gravity vision visor steam
clasped together floating in freefall.
Written by A.D.Hitchin, 2008
Lazarus Rising
drain vixen vipers
power power and
magick
I worship hawk headed God
raw voice
Lazarus rising of fire
praise Themis
sex power power and
mp3 audio frequency
degradation microchips implants
transmission emancipation
Lazarus rising mp3 audio frequency
pussy cocaine brain transmission emancipation
destroy you all
praise Themis sex
hawk headed God in brain wall
Written by A.D.Hitchin, 2008
Pink Underground Planet
Charles Dickens sparkling
Buddha bass rumbles
Jelly Vaseline fingers imprinted on metal
Arse fucking Ky glistening wet kill
killer sex cult latex gloves reflective orgies
kiss rubber
2012 boom! come
watchtower burns
I'm straps erect swollen plasma neon pink underground planet X
murder Jehovah's witnesses perhaps pink crucifix?
vault underground scriptures read high literature
plates nuclear proof iron gates locked perhaps you appreciate?
Written by A.D.Hitchin, 2008
8
sun melting
I am of gym rooms and rejection
pain deep
will never comprehend
nobody can
I am not a Twin
my chest at bench the stench
not a Twin
feel pain
pain
a lone Assassin
the apple core vapours
outsider so
numb
Third Entity
I loved you
belong to
you
you do not require me
I am
Third Entity
I ever desire infinity why did you feel nothing?
sweat of adolescents
Entity existing in whole as
8
Written by A.D.Hitchin, 2008
Split
masturbation cold lies
popped skin
a Third entity through poetry
hate you I beam
screams
I am coffee and cocaine
welcome to my twisted
me
blistered child
with dirty schisms in eyes
a Third Entity not a cornea copulation
pixel mind loved
you
fissures volcanic scarlet
numb victory morphine orphaned Twin
I belong to another timeline
blood vines bitch I'd
switch
face
I see no home for bitter taste
vinegar bi-polar polarised
split
Written by A.D.Hitchin, June 28th, 2008.
Cybernetic Sex Pistol
rubber bursts
sperm swollen
wet vaginal sweet and musty
sniff knickers lick hiss lubricated pubic juices
alien matrix clitoris red and
altercation domination vaccination the meaning fabrication
hairs wet glistens spit
maybe tomorrow knickers damp
knickers
spits like cobra in moonlight to cybernetic virus safe sex pistol
Written by A.D.Hitchin, 2008
No Linear, Virginia
gluten drips quicksilver
places populated by orgasm of unity
pathways
psychic maps
parasites
hermaphrodites the lingam yoni
sweet binah warm waters and entrances
journeying psychosis supernatural linear to netherworlds
forbidden
thee temple psychic
no linear
Virginia
Written by A.D.Hitchin, 2008
The Cut-Up Method of Thinking (A Brief History)
"Words don't have brands on them the way cattle do" said Burroughs as he sipped his Martini. Beckett scoffed as Burroughs went on, "Shakespeare, Rimbaud, newspapers, magazines, conversations, letters..." He rambled on in his slow drawn out way: "I've used them all."
Tristan Tzara was expelled from the Surrealists after he made a poem from words pulled from scraps of paper in a hat. Brion Gysin was the first to really develop the technique of cut-ups. He saw it as a way of writing with no need for rearranging what was scrambled.
Burroughs was greatly influenced by Gysin but he was able to take it one step further: He considered it only one of his writing tools along with newspaper articles, his dreams, seemingly random thoughts and any kind of word in his immediate vicinity. He took the scrambled text and reworked it until he felt it said something. Burroughs believed that he was not the writer but a transcriber of what was already written. It was no trouble if the words he wrote weren't his, since no words belonged to any writer, just like colours don't belong to painters.
There are people who would disagree. There are people who would think Klein Blue is not an obsurd concept. We already have trademarked phrases like "Do it" and songs we cannot sing without paying royalties like "Happy Birthday." We accept our limits in human expression to protect profits and keep society under control. The cut-up, fold-in or any form of scrambling these and other words destroys their ownership and any conscious intent from the "writer". This is not a modernist idea.
This is an idea from people who wanted to destroy the agents of control. Burroughs called the word a virus, something which infects us and duplicates itself. Certain words have strong effects on us. These are either seen as holy or obscene. Other words can change our consciousness like a chant or song. By cutting these words up Burroughs believed that he could become free from their effects.
Fold-in: taking the text of one page and cutting it into quarters -The quarters are switched around to combine columns in a new order. For example q.1 switched with q. 4. This method was used by Burroughs.
Cut-up: a general term for scrambled writing - A technique invented by Brion Gysin in the 1950s but also used before this time as an experimental method.
Contemporary Examples of the Cut-up Method in Music and Literature
From at least the early 1970s, David Bowie has used cut-ups to create some of his lyrics. It is a technique which came to influence Kurt Cobain's songwriting.
Other musicians working in sample-based music genres, such as hip hop and electronic music, employ a similar technique. DJs may spend hours in record stores looking ("digging") for LP records featuring obscure or interesting breaks, vocals, and other fragments to meld together in new compositions. Musique concrète had introduced such techniques — cutting, re-arranging and re-editing sounds — much earlier in a musical (as opposed to literary) context.
Jeff Noon uses a similar remixing technique in his writing based on the practices prevalent in Dub music. He expanded upon his remixing with his Cobralingus system, which breaks down a piece of writing, going as far as turning individual words into anagrams, then melding the results into a narrative.
And to return to Tzara's Dadaist example, Thom Yorke applied a similar method in Radiohead's Kid A (2000) album, writing single lines, putting them into a hat, and drawing them out at random while the band rehearsed the songs.
In the film Downtown 81, the band Tuxedomoon can be seen performing using a similar method of reading phrases from cut-up papers.
An online subculture of bastard pop resembles the fold-in technique by for example taking instrumentals from one artist and combining it with the vocals of another artist.
Burroughs taught cut-up technique to Genesis P-Orridge in 1971 as a method for "altering reality". Burroughs' explanation was that everything is recorded, and if it is recorded, then it can be edited (P-Orridge, 2003). P-Orridge has long employed cut-ups as an applied philosophy, a way of creating art and music, and of conducting one's life.
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