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51 lines
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A brief thought on the occassion of an all-american holiday:
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"Thanks for the wild turkey, and the passenger pidgeons,
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destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts.
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"Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison.
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"Thanks for indians to provide a modicum of challenge
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and danger.
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"Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin, leaving
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the carcasses to rot.
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"Thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes.
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"Thanks for the American Dream,
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To vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through.
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"Thanks for the KKK.
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For nigger-killin' lawmen, feelin' their notches.
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For decent church-goin' women,
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with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces.
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"Thanks for 'Kill A Queer For Christ' stickers.
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"Thanks for laboratory AIDS.
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"Thanks for Prohibition,
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and the War Against Drugs.
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"Thanks for a country
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where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.
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"Thanks for a nation of finks.
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"Yes, Thanks for all the memories ---
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'ALL RIGHT, LET'S SEE YOUR ARMS!'
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"You were ALWAYS a headache and you were ALWAYS a bore.
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"THANKS...
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For the last and greatest betrayal
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of the last and greatest of human dreams."
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---"A THANKSGIVING PRAYER"
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William S. Burroughs
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