Canadian Thanksgiving

This weekend is Thanksgiving here in Canada. Which ties in neatly with the U.S.' Columbus Day, and also saves Canada from having to give us another holiday between now and Christmas. Thanks Canada! You won't let us watch good tv, but at least you'll ensure we burn out faster! Fuckers.

Anway, I like to listen to this every Thanksgiving. Really reminds me of what is important in the world today. (Right click to save mp3 file.)

"To John Dillinger and hope he is still alive.
Thanksgiving Day November 28 1986"

Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger 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 kill and skin leaving thecarcasses 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 nigger-killin' lawmen,feelin' their notches.

For decent church-goin' women,with their mean, pinched, bitter,evil faces.

Thanks for "Kill a Queer forChrist" 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 andyou always were a bore.

Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.
- William S. Burroughs

Here's video of the man himself reading his poem.