fillerbunny

I know it's a little late for this but I couldn't find it before, it was buried in my steamer trunk so I'll just put it up now...

A thanksgiving prayer by: 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 carcasses to rot.
*
Thanks for bounties on
wolves and coyotes
*
Thanks for the American
dream, to vulgarize and to
falsify until the bare lies
shine through.
*
Thanks for the KKK
*
For nigger-killin' lawmen
feeling their notches.
*
For decent church-goin'
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's allowed to mind their
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 betrayel of the last
and greatest of human
dreams.



bitter? yes
sad? yes
depressing? yes
Genius? oh fuck yes

that is all