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November 23, 2005

A Thanksgiving Prayer from William S. Burroughs

Burroughs3Straight 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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You just made my holiday. Thank you.

Happy Thanksgiving American comrades. You want Burroughs? We gots Burroughs. Check out "Ah Pook Is Here".

thank you , thank you so much, thank you,well that is about it.
let's spread the word.

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