{"id":11189,"date":"2013-11-28T12:58:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T16:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=11189"},"modified":"2013-11-28T12:58:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T16:58:59","slug":"a-thanksgiving-team-burroughs-mustill-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/a-thanksgiving-team-burroughs-mustill-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thanksgiving Team: Burroughs & Mustill, Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

via Jan Herman<\/strong>‘s Straight Up<\/strong><\/em><\/a> site:
\nNovember 28, 2013\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span>Jan Herman<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Leave a Comment<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

A Straight Up tradition continues. William S. Burroughs\u2019s\u00a0words of gratitude<\/a>\u00a0on Thanksgiving Day paired with a couple of collages by Norman O. Mustill. Look and\u00a0listen<\/a>. It\u2019s delish . . .<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Collages \u00a9 1967 by Norman O. Mustill, excerpted from \u2018Flypaper\u2019 [Beach Books, San Francisco, 1967]<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons,
\ndestined to be shit out through wholesome American guts \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for a Continent to despoil
\nand poison \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for Indians to provide a
\nmodicum of challenge and
\ndanger \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for vast herds of bison to
\nkill and skin leaving the
\ncarcasses to rot \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for bounties on wolves
\nand coyotes \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for the AMERICAN DREAM
\nto vulgarize and to falsify until
\nthe bare lies shine through \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for the KKK,
\nfor nigger-killin\u2019 lawmen,
\nfeelin\u2019 their notches,
\nfor decent church-goin\u2019 women,
\nwith their mean, pinched, bitter,
\nevil faces \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for \u201cKill a Queer for
\nChrist\u201d stickers \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for laboratory AIDS \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for Prohibition and the
\nWar against Drugs \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for a country where
\nnobody\u2019s allowed to mind his
\nown business \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for a nation of finks \u2014 yes,<\/p>\n

thanks for all the
\nmemories \u2026 all right let\u2019s see
\nyour arms \u2026
\nyou always were a headache and
\nyou always were a bore \u2014<\/p>\n

thanks for the last and greatest
\nbetrayal of the last and greatest
\nof human dreams.<\/p>\n

Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986<\/strong>
\n\u00a9 1986 by William S. Burroughs<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

via Jan Herman‘s Straight Up site: November 28, 2013\u00a0by\u00a0Jan Herman\u00a0Leave a Comment A Straight Up tradition continues. William S. Burroughs\u2019s\u00a0words of gratitude\u00a0on Thanksgiving Day paired with a couple of collages by Norman O. Mustill....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,108],"tags":[763],"class_list":["post-11189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-whatever","tag-william-burroughs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11193,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189\/revisions\/11193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}