Here's a Thanksgiving Eve re-post from last year, Gus Van Sant's film of William Burroughs' poem Thanksgiving Prayer: download mpg video or youtube it.
Thanksgiving Prayer
by William S Burroughs
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.