The Cut-Ups Volume 1: Medicated Death
by Zachary Robert Long (851 words, estimated reading time: 5 minutes)

The following cut-ups were created using the index of a hack medical text and a  poorly researched chapter on Jonestown. Images of the cut-ups can be found at the bottom of the page.

1.

Premenstrual syndrome
as vaginal lubricant,
breast discomfort and,
prenatal
Vomiting,
and,
nausea

Warts
of
Wasps
and
diarrhea
impure

bone exercise
by
insomnia
Blisters
from
shingles,
Blood.
coughing up
in eye,
urine,
circulation.

911
constipation from
arthritis

foot odor
hemorrhoids,
insect
legs
problems and,
self-treatment,

2.
still reverberates in the public imagination almost thirty years
inspiration, its charismatic leader for guidance and dreamed of an
leader. Local politicians and city officials sensing the growing
fields – 276 of them children. The man who had brought
purple Flavor Aid, a version of Kool-Aid, mixed with potassium
there in speechless horror, a few of the leaders fell to the ground.
equality made the cult attractive to the increasing number of
problems – not forgetting to promote the lessons of their great
piece of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, interjecting his
down the entire organization if irregularities were uncovered.
members of the cult had for some time been conditioned to accept
occasionally incoherent speech, he told the cult members:
over a thousand more cultists had set off for a new life in the
educational programmes and, increasingly, Russian language
the months of back-breaking work that would be required to turn
meetings. The 250 children were included in this work
to a remote encampment known as ‘Jonestown’ deep in the
December 1973 to read a headline story that the Reverend James
In all, 914 people died on Saturday, 18 November in
example, that Jones was actually a rogue CIA agent who was
named the ‘Wings of Deliverance’ in April 1955, renaming the
gate ‘Jonestown’

3.

4.

The ‘People’s Temple’ now became a community with the
people who died in Guyana in November 1978 after drinking a
idyllic lifestyle far from the pressures of contemporary life in the
height of the American Civil Rights Movement, he was ordained
after it occurred. The events surrounding the cult founded by the
Jonestown Express giving a concert for residents and guests.
Soon the young man was fired with a desire to be a preacher
of beans and rice, with meat and vegetables a rare treat. Apart
America. All of this contributed to the leader’s increasing
homosexual activity. The media had a field day with the story
utopia’ that Jim Jones had promised, but a holocaust unimagin-
acts and even child molestation.                                           
Documents seized in Guyana from among the dead refer to
impossible final scenario for the cult that looked to the Bible for
World War veteran whose bitterness towards life was evidenced
seemingly dead. While the participants waited for the poison to
those who transgressed. A youngster who was heard being rude
fully expected to die, as they had no means of protecting
documents in which they admitted to performing homosexual
partnerships between a variety of people.’                                    
A popular version of the next few months of Jim Jones’s life
convinced that religion and politics could mix and fashioned
cyanide and various sedatives and tranquillizers – including
‘Jones used sex to control the members of his “Planning
Authority Commission.