The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Fri 11/28/2008) LANGUAGE WARNING

[RetroLounge]

A Thanksgiving Prayer

         --- 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.

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.

Thanks for laboratory AIDS.

Thanks for Prohibition and the
war against drugs.

Thanks for a country where
nobody's allowed to mind his
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.

William Burroughs

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:hi:

RL

[lizziegrace]

1. ...

we've pretty much destroyed everything we've touched, haven't we?

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

4. Pretty much, yeah.

:hi:

RL

[lizziegrace]

6. Don't have to work today, do you?

I hate you... ;)

[RetroLounge]

9. Paid day off...

:9

RL

[lizziegrace]

10. Now I hate you even more...

:P

[YankeyMCC]

2. Yikes, that's harsh but

sometimes that's the harshness of reality we need to face isn't it...

[RetroLounge]

12. ...

:hi:

RL

[Chorophyll]

3. You've completely harshed my turkey-coma!

But that's okay.

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

14. Dude!

:hi:

RL

[Chorophyll]

15. Duuuude...

...gnarly...

:smoke:

[RetroLounge]

5. YouTube of Burroughs reading this poem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7_MYrVzU-Y

:hi:

RL

[Dystopian]

7. You couldn't have picked a better poem.

Thank you, Retro. I was thinking about the Thanksgiving lie a couple days ago, and did a google search. Much to my surprise, my post on DU came up ...from two years ago.
No replies, so you can see why I never start threads...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2781999

Thank you for posting this poem, the truth of our nation.

:hi:

peace~

[RetroLounge]

8. You should repost that...

thanks

:hi:

RL

[Dystopian]

13. Maybe I will....

Next year...too late to dampen the holiday spirit now;)
I was once told that I'm a day late and a dollar short...:shrug:
Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving...in spite of history and poetry of truth...
It's still a nice day to share and come together...

:hug:

peace~

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. My dear Retro!

Wow...

The other side of Thanksgiving...the real side...

It is harsh, but so damned good too...

BTW, thanks for the explanation of your pics in my birthday thread! You made me laugh!

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

20. ...

:hi:

RL

[BlueIris]

16. Retro, I think you and I have swapped style preferences.

Or possibly brains. I'm not sure which.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8276536&mesg_id=8276536

[RetroLounge]

17. We're just well-rounded...

and well-read.

:hi:

RL

[mokawanis]

18. That one hits hard

which is why I like it. It's a refreshing change from all the superficial cheering that's spoon-fed to us daily.

[RetroLounge]

19. ...

:hi:

RL