Here is William Burroughs in March, 1960 publishing an early cut-up in Minutes to Go, a collaboration with Sinclair Beiles and former surrealist, Brion Gysin.

The beautiful disease and
the government falls
along the weed rooms
flesh among the weed government . . .

The girls eat morning
dying people to a white bone monkey
in the winter sun
touching tree of the house

It was made from a Saturday Evening Post article called "New Clues to Cancer Cure" and intended to showcase the approach derided by Samuel Beckett: "That's not writing. Its plumbing."

. . .

I think its purty.