Best Thanksgiving Prayer Ever

Below is a reprint of The Thanksgiving Prayer by William Burroughs. Burroughs was hugely influential member of the Beats. Without him, no counterculture and everything that followed in its wake. I can’t do him justice so check out Wikipedia via Kempepedia
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs

I want wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and hopefully see you Black Friday Night at Kclinger’s for Devolver, starting at 10. Then Sat. night, Boxcar Social is throwing it down at The Coliseum, also starting at 10. A splendid time is guaranteed for all.

William S. Burroughs
"The Thanksgiving Prayer"

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 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.