Werd: Thanks - Part Two

Posted by Patrick Snajder Categories: Editorials, Humor

Thank you mom for my birthday.

Thank you dad for the hustle.

Thank you Ed for the sense of humor.

Thank you Max for the heart.

Thank you Stef for understanding.

Thank you ROC Crew for lifting my spirits.

Thank you Lleras for the laughs.

Thank you Shawna for listening.

Thank you IM Buddys for being online.

Thank you left-handers for saying no to the right.

Thank you MGMT, The Arcade Fire, and Portishead for diversions.

Thank you DFW, Vonnegut, and Gladwell for the extensive studies.

Thank you for reading this.

Thank you internet for all of it.

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Werd: Thanks - Part One

Posted by Patrick Snajder Categories: Editorials, History, Videos

This week’s invocation for the Werd is William S. Burroughs reciting his poem “Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986” (Gus Van Sant directed the video):

And the text to follow along:

Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986

Thanks for the wild turkey and
the passenger pigeons, destined
to be #### 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 the
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.

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