A Thanksgiving Prayer
William S. Burroughs
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.
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