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Straight from Blame-America-First World Headquarters to your hard drive, here's a Thanksgiving Day prayer from William S. Burroughs, from a video directed by Gus Van Sant (mpg video for download). In this 1986 poem, Burroughs salutes our nation of finks "where nobody is allowed to mind his own business." And he throws in a few bad words for the KKK, Prohibition and "Kill a Queer for Christ" bumper stickers for good measure.
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link > much smaller mb-wise video
link > audio only
Posted by: pete in LA | November 23, 2005 at 06:52 PM
You just made my holiday. Thank you.
Posted by: Robert Sabin | November 24, 2005 at 02:01 AM
Happy Thanksgiving American comrades. You want Burroughs? We gots Burroughs. Check out "Ah Pook Is Here".
Posted by: John | November 24, 2005 at 03:31 PM
thank you , thank you so much, thank you,well that is about it.
let's spread the word.
Posted by: Hemaworstje | November 24, 2005 at 07:59 PM