A thanks giving prayer

For John Dillinger and hope he is still alive

Thanksgiving Day, November Twenty-eighth, 1986

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-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'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 betrayal

Of the last and greatest of human dreams

William Burroughs

1914 - 1997

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