Thursday, November 23, 2017


thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons 
destined to be shat 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 the 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 falsify until the bare lies shine through

thanks for the kkk
for nigger-killing lawmen feeling their notches

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

   (addendum: thanks for the final trump!)

wm. s. burroughs
thanks.

 

 

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