In late 1920, the Dadaist writer Tris­tan Tzara wrote “dada man­i­festo on fee­ble love and bit­ter love,” which includ­ed a sec­tion called “To Make a Dadaist Poem,” and it gave these instruc­tions: Take a news­pa­per. Take some scis­sors. Choose from this paper an arti­cle of the length you want to make your poem. Cut out … Con­tin­ue read­ing William S. Bur­roughs Tells the Sto­ry of How He Start­ed Writ­ing with the Cut-Up Tech­nique