A Thanksgiving Prayer (1986/1991) <br /><br />Thanks for the wild turkey and <br />the passenger pigeons, destined <br />to be shit out through wholesome <br />American guts. <br />Thanks for a continent to despoil <br />and poison. <br />Thanks for Indians to provide a <br />modicum of challenge and <br />danger. <br />Thanks for vast herds of bison to <br />kill and skin leaving the <br />carcasses to rot. <br />Thanks for bounties on wolves <br />and coyotes. <br />Thanks for the American dream, <br />To vulgarize and to falsify until <br />the bare lies shine through. <br />Thanks for the KKK. <br />For nigger-killin' lawmen, <br />feelin' their notches. <br />For decent church-goin' women, <br />with their mean, pinched, bitter, <br />evil faces. <br />Thanks for "Kill a Queer for <br />Christ" stickers. <br />Thanks for laboratory AIDS. <br />Thanks for Prohibition and the <br />war against drugs. <br />Thanks for a country where <br />nobody's allowed to mind the <br />own business. <br />Thanks for a nation of finks. <br />Yes, thanks for all the <br />memories-- all right let's see <br />your arms! <br />You always were a headache and <br />you always were a bore. <br />Thanks for the last and greatest <br />betrayal of the last and greatest <br />of human dreams. <br /><br />Trad. fr.: <a class="link" rel="nofollow" href="http://viefiction.over-blog.com/5-categorie-606971.html">http://viefiction.over-blog.com/5-categorie-606971.html</a> <br />________________ <br /><br /><a class="link" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.wfmu.org/">http://blog.wfmu.org/</a>
