It’s Sunday! Time for arts and crafts.

Try writing a cut-up poem, where you cut up a printed text and rearrange the bits to create a new text. William Burroughs popularized this technique; listen to his early cut-up “K-9 Was in Combat with the Alien Mind-Screens” or read “CANCER MEN. . . THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE MARKED FOE. . .” and other poems. Traditionally, you use a single source text, but I don’t see the point in adhering to that if using multiple texts works better for you.

If you don’t feel like getting your writing room messy, try the Cut-Up Laboratory, which simulates paper cut-up on your screen.

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