by Burroughs - added to by me.
Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit 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 the carcasses 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 for Christ" stickers
For "Skin Bin Laden" wanted posters on pickup trucks painted like the flag.
Thanks for the war on terrorism and all the civil liberties given up for safe measure.
Thanks for the Congress and being true politicians dragging their feet until the pork barrels top off.
Thanks for ignoring everything -- until thousands of people die.
Thanks for the patriotism -- it only showed when we were scared -- take down those colors -- they're dirty and tattered -- waving forgotten on antennas waiting to receive bad news.
Thanks for CNN and their instant coverage of the same nothing - 24 hours a day.
For the Red-Cross, exploiting every disaster for new phones and advertising budgets -- so they'll be ready to do it again.
Thanks for giving in September and then sewing your pockets as the hungry lines grow longer.
Thanks for laboratory AIDS.
For ignored cancer.
For these cigarettes I can not stop buying.
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 and you always were a bore.
Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.
