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Thursday, November 28, 2024

olive at the fountain.

Every year on the last Thursday of November, we celebrate the beginning of a European invasion that ends with the death, land dispossession, and relocation of millions of native people.

Lawrence Ware

if everything that can happen has happened is happening or will happen what's the point of giving thanks.

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 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-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 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.

Thanksgiving Prayer, by

William S. Burroughs

(for Sarah E. Lauzen)

olive is banished from the kitchen after chewing a loaf and a cord. i forgot to mention i saw her staring at the bookshelf days ago and subsequently heard a thunk. she had pulled walter benjamin's reflections, illuminations, and clarice lispector's the hour of the star, and the breath of life off the shelf. the kid olive is one precocious cat.

thanksgiving drag race in the park. they get in a big line behind the museum and head to lake shore drive and burn circles in the intersection. the cops stand by, observing the show. there are many ways to celebrate american freedom. and now it's finished, time for turkey and stuffing and punkin pie.

no thanks, obama, for all you've done, for all you do, to our world.