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 the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through.  Thanks for the KKK.  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. -- a thanksgiving prayer (excerpts) by W. S. Burroughs

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