A Thanksgiving Prayer

[Richard 0]

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.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7_MYrVzU-Y

 

[Gary Floyd 0]

I fucking love William S. Burroughs.

[Hoff 0]

Yeah, America sucks!

 

[The Niggardly King 0]

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Every post in this thread is terrible, be the intent genuine or sarcastic.

[The Niggardly King 0]

no

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

To be fair, I never saw what sure-to-be-hilarious picture you meant to post, you bandwidth-stealing douche nozzle.

[Henry Spencer 0]

Is that poem really by Burroughs? I love him and all, but man, that's hacknyed.

[Richard 0]

bump

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Like fine wine, this thread.

[... 0]

You mean only for snobs who spend so much they really don't care how it tastes?

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

My old man would always say,

 

"God is good

God is great

Thank you Lord

For this pig we ate.

Amen"

 

He would say "pig" even if we were having turkey. I also never understood what he would say "ate" when we wouldn't have even consumed one thing from the dinner table yet.

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

What I learned from the Pilgrims:

 

And after the time of the writing of these things befell a very sad accident of the like foul nature in this government, this very year, which I shall now relate. There was a youth whose name was Thomas Granger. He was servant to an honest man of Duxbury being about 16 or 17 years of age. (His father and mother lived at the same time at Scituate.) He was this year detected of buggery, and indicted for the same, with a mare, a cow, two goats, five sheep, two calves and a turkey. Horrible it is to mention, but the truth of the history requires it. He was first discovered by one that accidentally saw his lewd practice towards the mare. (I forbear particulars.) Being upon it examined and committed, in the end he not only confessed the fact with that beast at that time, but sundry times before and at several times with all the rest of the forenamed in his indictment. And this his free confession was not only in private to the magistrates (though at first he strived to deny it) but to sundry, both ministers and others; and afterwards, upon his indictment, to the whole Court and jury; and confirmed it at his execution.

 

And whereas some of the sheep could not so well be known by his description of them, others with them were brought before him and he declared which were they and which were not. And accordingly he was cast by the jury and condemned, and after executed about the 8th of September, 1642. A very sad spectacle it was. For first the mare and then the cow and the rest of the lesser cattle were killed before his face, according to the law, Leviticus xx.15; and then he himself was executed. The cattle were all cast into a great and large pit that was digged of purpose for them, and no use made of any part of them.

 

Upon the examination of this person and also of a former that had made some sodomitical attempts upon another, it being demanded of them how they came first to the knowledge and practice of such wickedness, the one confessed he had long used it in old England; and this youth last spoken of said he was taught it by another that had heard of such things from some in England when he was there, and they kept cattle together. By which it appears how one wicked person may infect many, and what care all ought to have what servants they bring into their families.

 

[SuperJerk 0]

Is that poem really by Burroughs? I love him and all, but man, that's hacknyed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7_MYrVzU-Y