Thanksgiving Prayer |
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BorisVM | William S. Burroughs For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts — thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison — thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger — thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin, leaving the carcass to rot — thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes — thanks for the AMERICAN DREAM to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through — thanks for the KKK, for nigger-killing lawmen feeling their notches, for decent church-going women with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces — thanks for "Kill a Queer for Christ" stickers — thanks for laboratory AIDS — thanks for Prohibition and the War Against Drugs — thanks for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business — thanks for a nation of finks — yes, thanks for all the memories... all right, let's see your arms... you always were a headache and you always were a bore — thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams. |