a thanksgiving prayer

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a thanksgiving prayer

Post by joe » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:11 am

a 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 the "n" word-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 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.
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Re: a thanksgiving prayer

Post by Jason » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:15 am

Kick ass. needs to be a metal song. Will get to work on it asap.
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Re: a thanksgiving prayer

Post by MrBlip » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:41 pm

Banned joe for racism.

There's a song George Carlin sings in one of his bits that would go right along with this. I'll see if I can find the lyrics for it.

Edit:
Oh beautiful
For smoggy skies,
Insecticided grain
For strip-mined mountain's magesty
Above the asphault plane
America, America,
Man sheds his waste on thee
And hide the pines with billboard signs
From sea to smoggy sea

Something like that.
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Re: a thanksgiving prayer

Post by Bogey » Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:22 pm

I almost read this poem in my English class last week (I went with HOWL by Allen Ginsberg instead, put half the class to sleep and the other half on the edges of their seats).
I love Burroughs' work. I'm currently reading Naked Lunch which is totally fantastic. Every other day I'll run up to a friend and make them read one passage or another that I thought was great.
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Re: a thanksgiving prayer

Post by joe » Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:36 am

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Re: a thanksgiving prayer

Post by Cc_Hairy » Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:37 pm

he forgot frozen french-cut green bean casserole with cream of mushroom soup

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Re: a thanksgiving prayer

Post by Delinquent » Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:32 am

joe do you have to fight against everyone all the time? rebel without a cause comes to mind...
or you just talk a lot and haven't done anything...


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Re: a thanksgiving prayer

Post by joe » Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:20 am

i observe the world and form opinions. i'm not fighting anything, just expressing how i feel.
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Re: a thanksgiving prayer

Post by knoid » Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:17 pm

Sorry to revive an old thread but I just noticed this....joe - didn't you post that same poem a few years back? :D
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Re: a thanksgiving prayer

Post by joe » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:21 am

every thanksgiving
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Re: a thanksgiving prayer

Post by Cc_Hairy » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:19 pm

joe wheres my gdam xmas poem u promised me?
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Re: a thanksgiving prayer

Post by joe » Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:10 pm

i don't recall making such a promise
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Re: a thanksgiving prayer

Post by Rat-morningstar » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:22 am

wtf necro
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Re: a thanksgiving prayer

Post by Jason » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:24 am

Lolll every damn year.
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Re: a thanksgiving prayer

Post by A Ninja » Thu Nov 27, 2014 11:01 pm

bump at Ian7's request
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