Burroughs Demon Cut-Up # 666

Burroughs Demon Cut-Up # 666

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A trace This placeless place Surrendering he cared Tried to hold on and stars lined up Like ancestors dancing But the echoes faded He forgot the dream The vision without love He fought and struggled executioner Yet he defied the gods away Then one day The sun Slithering beneath the tide The planets through springs frost Where had he Endlessly The egg cracked breaking did not rise No dawn to His origin was a black hole free fall There was a time Always more to surrender Life and memories Nothing he believed was real kiss the sky All his past lost to time Still heard the landed? Heard the landed? There was no landing, Just blurred into one And faded without go. All the faces and names to anything, But finally demons Born to a vacuum. To a vacuum

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This placeless place

Faded without trace

Surrendering 

He cared 

Star's lined up

Tried to hold on

Echos 

Forgot the dream 

Fought the stars 

Executioner 

Struggled 

Vision without love

Yet he defied the Gods 

One day saw

Sun Slithering

Beneath 

Tide of planets

Thru springs frost

Endlessly 

Egg cracked breaking

Dawn did not rise

His origin was a black hole

Freefall

Always more to surrender

There was a time

Life and memories

Nothing he believed was real

All his past lost to time?

Kiss the sky?

There was no landing 

All the faces and names

Anything

Born to a vacuum 

Blurred into one

Faded away

He surrendered to

Visions of Love

Then his demons

Finally 

Let go

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Burroughs requested this cut-up in 2021. I received the message from one of Burroughs' cats while in a dream. The cat meowed and spoke in a language I did not understand. I blacked out, then woke up feeling hungover and realized I had put together a cut-up on demons for Burroughs, but I have no idea the source material used.

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© David Penn Trinley Arndt 2022