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November 24th, 2006 by Deanna Taylor Deanna Taylor

5 Responses to “William S. Burroughs - Thanksgiving Prayer”

1. Caveat Says:
   November 25th, 2006 at 2:08 pm

   My phone line has a kink in it, Therefore U-tube transmissions are almost never worth the wait. I do think that Wm. Burroughs messages are often very powerful. Is there a transcript? Thanks C.E.

2. Deanna Taylor Says:
   November 25th, 2006 at 4:06 pm

   Why yes, there is:
   ———————————–
   “Thanksgiving Prayer”
   by William S. 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 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 the
   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.

3. Caveat Says:
   November 25th, 2006 at 4:13 pm

   Thanks Deane. Did you ever hear Williams rap on dinosaurs and Beau Brummel? I’ve got it on vinyl.

4. OneNephi Says:
   November 25th, 2006 at 5:46 pm

   I like Wild Turkey, too.

5. CJ Says:
   November 28th, 2006 at 7:18 pm

   William S. Burroughs is my favorite author/poet. My favorite reading of his was “The Priest They Called Him.”

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