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A Thanksgiving Prayer by William Seward Burroughs
Thanks for the wild turkey andthe passenger pigeons, destinedto be shit out through wholesomeAmerican guts. Thanks for a continent to despoiland poison.
Thanks for Indians to provide amodicum of challenge anddanger. Thanks for vast herds of bison tokill and skin leaving thecarcasses to rot.
Thanks for bounties on wolvesand coyotes. Thanks for the American dream,To vulgarize and to falsify untilthe 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 forChrist" stickers. Thanks for laboratory AIDS. Thanks for Prohibition and thewar against drugs. Thanks for a country wherenobody's allowed to mind theown business. Thanks for a nation of finks. Yes, thanks for all thememories-- all right let's seeyour arms! You always were a headache andyou always were a bore. Thanks for the last and greatestbetrayal of the last and greatestof human dreams.
A Thanksgiving Prayer
Oh thank you Lord for giving we the American people an entire continent to take away from the Native People.
For giving to us the opportunity to exploit and plunder this great land, we thank you oh Lord.
Thank you Lord for giving us the opportunity to show the Native People their proper place is on the reservations that we have carved out for them.
Thank you Lord for the opportunity to ethnically cleanse and reeducate the Native People and to show to them the American way of life.
Thank you Lord for this day of Thanksgiving whereby we can celebrate a national day of genocide.
Thank you oh Lord for our bounteous blessings and our amply filled bellies.
Thank you oh Lord for our shopping malls and our super highways.
Thank you oh Lord for our cars and our trucks.
Thank you oh Lord for giving to we the American people the world’s resources to exploit and use up.
Thank you oh Lord for giving us the superior position in our world and for making America the world’s last super power.
Thank you oh Lord for our wise political leaders and their policies of preemptive war.
Thank you oh Lord for America’s military might.
Thank you oh Lord for America’s superior military technology.
Thank you oh Lord for our depleted uranium weapons, our laser guided munitions, our cluster bombs, our white phosphorous bombs, and of course our napalm.
Thank you oh Lord for our thermo-baric bombs and our satellite precision munitions.
Thank you oh Lord that our political leaders have placed Muslim men, women, and children into secret detention. Thank you oh Lord for Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib Prison, Bagram Airbase, and the various secret facilities that our CIA keeps secret from America and the world.
Thank you oh Lord for the torture being worked on our behalf. Thank you oh Lord that our political leaders are keeping America safe from the terrorists.
Thank you oh Lord for this day of Thanksgiving, we surely have much to be thankful about. ¶ 23.11.05
Thanks for the wild turkey andthe passenger pigeons, destinedto be shit out through wholesomeAmerican guts. Thanks for a continent to despoiland poison.
Thanks for Indians to provide amodicum of challenge anddanger. Thanks for vast herds of bison tokill and skin leaving thecarcasses to rot.
Thanks for bounties on wolvesand coyotes. Thanks for the American dream,To vulgarize and to falsify untilthe 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 forChrist" stickers. Thanks for laboratory AIDS. Thanks for Prohibition and thewar against drugs. Thanks for a country wherenobody's allowed to mind theown business. Thanks for a nation of finks. Yes, thanks for all thememories-- all right let's seeyour arms! You always were a headache andyou always were a bore. Thanks for the last and greatestbetrayal of the last and greatestof human dreams.
A Thanksgiving Prayer
Oh thank you Lord for giving we the American people an entire continent to take away from the Native People.
For giving to us the opportunity to exploit and plunder this great land, we thank you oh Lord.
Thank you Lord for giving us the opportunity to show the Native People their proper place is on the reservations that we have carved out for them.
Thank you Lord for the opportunity to ethnically cleanse and reeducate the Native People and to show to them the American way of life.
Thank you Lord for this day of Thanksgiving whereby we can celebrate a national day of genocide.
Thank you oh Lord for our bounteous blessings and our amply filled bellies.
Thank you oh Lord for our shopping malls and our super highways.
Thank you oh Lord for our cars and our trucks.
Thank you oh Lord for giving to we the American people the world’s resources to exploit and use up.
Thank you oh Lord for giving us the superior position in our world and for making America the world’s last super power.
Thank you oh Lord for our wise political leaders and their policies of preemptive war.
Thank you oh Lord for America’s military might.
Thank you oh Lord for America’s superior military technology.
Thank you oh Lord for our depleted uranium weapons, our laser guided munitions, our cluster bombs, our white phosphorous bombs, and of course our napalm.
Thank you oh Lord for our thermo-baric bombs and our satellite precision munitions.
Thank you oh Lord that our political leaders have placed Muslim men, women, and children into secret detention. Thank you oh Lord for Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib Prison, Bagram Airbase, and the various secret facilities that our CIA keeps secret from America and the world.
Thank you oh Lord for the torture being worked on our behalf. Thank you oh Lord that our political leaders are keeping America safe from the terrorists.
Thank you oh Lord for this day of Thanksgiving, we surely have much to be thankful about. ¶ 23.11.05
