William S. Burroughs - A Thanksgiving Prayer lyrics

"To John Dillinger and hope he is still alive. Thanksgiving Day, November 28 1986" Thanks for the wild turkey and The pa**enger pigeons, destined To be shat 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** and skin leaving the Carca**es 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 n******g-k**ing lawmen, Feeling their notches. For decent church-going women, With their mean, pinched, bitter, Evil faces. Thanks for "k** a Queer for Christ" stickers. Thanks for laboratory AIDS. Thanks for Prohibition and the War against d**. 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.