A Thanksgiving Prayer

Thanksgiving Prayer

For John Dillinger, In hope he is still alive

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 carcass to rot --

thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes --

thanks for the AMERICAN DREAM to vulgarize and 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 is allowed to mind his 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 S. Burroughs-----

T-Day

Three for Thanksgiving Day. It's been a tough year and I pray for all of us that it starts to get better.

Thanks, Or Something

Thanks to our great country, for finally getting one right!
Maybe, just maybe, there's a light at the end of the tunnel!
Even in these trying, scary and troubling times,
there are things to give thanks for.

But old Bill Lee might feel otherwise!

And things coulda worked out better on this T-Day past.

Bookage:
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens


Toonage:
Johnny Cash _ I Won't Back Down (Tom Petty cover)
Sleater-Kinny - American Ruse (live 5-20-04) (MC5 cover)
Robyn Hitchcock - Visions Of Johanna (live 3-3-05 ) (Bob Dylan cover)
X Ray Spex - The Day The World Turned Day Glo
Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant Massacre

How Many Local Dollars For A Local Anesthetic?

“Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.”
-- William S. Burroughs --

Bookage:
William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch - The Restored Text

Toonage:
Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues (Live at Folson Prison)
The Clash - Safe European Home (Live London Music Machine 1978)
Velvet Underground - Heroin (Demo)
Flamin' Groovies - Slow Death - (Rehearsal San Francisco 1971)
Nirvana - I Hate Myself And Want To Die



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