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Now more than ever: A Thanksgiving Prayer By Dennis Hartley

Now more than ever: A Thanksgiving Prayer

By Dennis Hartley

I’ve always thought of this as an ironic prayer…

…but now it strikes me as more of a chilling prophecy:


Thanks for a continent to despoil
and poison.

Thanks for Indians to provide a
Modicum of challenge and
danger.

Thanks for the American dream,
To vulgarize and falsify until
the bare lies shine through


Thanks for the KKK.

…or decent church-goin’ women,
with their mean, pinched, bitter,
evil faces.

Thanks for “Kill a Queer
for Christ” stickers.

Thanks for a country where
nobody’s allowed to mind their
own business.




Thanks for a nation of finks.


Thanks for the last and greatest
betrayal of the last and greatest
of human dreams.

Happy holidays!

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–Dennis Hartley

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