Thanksgiving Prayer (1991)

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For John Dillinger,
In hope he is still alive,

Thanksgiving Day, November ,

Thanks for the wild turkey
and the Passenger Pigeons,

destined to be sh*t 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 k*ll
and skin, leaving the carcass 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 n*gg*r-k*lling lawmen
feeling their notches,

for decent church-going women
with their mean,

pinched, bitter, evil faces.

Thanks for "k*ll a q*eer for Christ"
stickers.

Thanks for laboratory AIDS.

Thanks for Prohibition

and the w*r Against dr*gs.

Thanks for a country where nobody
is 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.