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<\/p>\nLest we forget…<\/p>\n
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William Burroughs.<\/em><\/p>\n Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986.<\/strong><\/p>\n For John Dillinger Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts \u2014<\/p>\n thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison \u2014<\/p>\n thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger \u2014<\/p>\n thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin, leaving the carcass to rot \u2014<\/p>\n thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes \u2014<\/p>\n thanks for the AMERICAN DREAM to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through \u2014<\/p>\n thanks for the KKK, for nigger-killing lawmen feeling their notches, for decent church-going women with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces \u2014<\/p>\n thanks for \u201cKill a Queer for Christ\u201d stickers \u2014<\/p>\n thanks for laboratory AIDS \u2014<\/p>\n thanks for Prohibition and the War Against Drugs \u2014<\/p>\n thanks for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business \u2014<\/p>\n thanks for a nation of finks \u2014 yes,<\/p>\n thanks for all the memories\u2026 all right, let\u2019s see your arms\u2026 you always were a headache and you always were a bore \u2014<\/p>\n thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.\u2022 From Tornado Alley<\/em> (1989).<\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } Lest we forget… William Burroughs. Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986. For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts \u2014 thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison \u2014 thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of … Continue reading “William Burroughs gives thanks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,28,5,14],"tags":[1190],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-burroughs","category-gay","category-politics","tag-william-burroughs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-ha","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn hope he is still alive<\/em><\/p>\n
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