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    Thanksgiving Prayer by William Burroughs

    Thanksgiving Prayer by William 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,
    feelin' 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 the
    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.

    Comments and faves

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      pentimento added this photo to their favorites. (76 months ago)

    2. pentimento (76 months ago | reply)

      Thank you for posting this Mike!

    3. ososment (76 months ago | reply)

      bcmedia.brooklyn.cuny.edu/modlang/fgc/thanksg ivingprayer.mp3

      sounds good in his own voice...

    4. mquest foto (76 months ago | reply)

      thanks- I always loved uncle bills voice

    5. pentimento (76 months ago | reply)

      ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS! Thankful me, thankful us. Hey OSOSMENT! Thank you for posting the link with his voice and his wonderful Burroughning performance, such a joy!

    6. pentimento (76 months ago | reply)

      Mike, could you please post your work of virtue here
      www.flickr.com/groups/31249556@N00/

    7. pentimento (76 months ago | reply)

      Oh, you did this. Thank you!

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      hideo71 and Charles Silver added this photo to their favorites.

    9. noir imp (32 months ago | reply)

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Welcome to Interzone, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    10. non fotografo (32 months ago | reply)

      Wonderful words and composition B-)
      (seen on INTERZONE)

    11. garlandcannon (27 months ago | reply)

      Powerful!

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