{"id":3406,"date":"2012-11-22T10:07:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T15:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2012-11-23T12:05:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T17:05:35","slug":"burroughs-mustill-team-up-for-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2012\/11\/burroughs-mustill-team-up-for-thanksgiving.html","title":{"rendered":"Teaming Burroughs & Mustill for Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Straight Up tradition continues. But this year William S. Burroughs’s words of gratitude<\/a> on Thanksgiving Day are posted with a couple of collages by Norman O. Mustill. That completes the package. Look and listen<\/a>. It’s delish . . .<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Collages \u00a9 1967 by Norman O. Mustill, excerpted from ‘Flypaper’ [Beach Books, San Francisco, 1967]<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Straight Up tradition continues. But this year William S. Burroughs’s words of gratitude on Thanksgiving Day are posted with a couple of collages by Norman O. Mustill. That completes the package. Look and listen. It’s delish . . . Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-political-culture","10":"category-uncategorized","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mustill-from-FLYPAPER560.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-SW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}