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FILM

November 27, 2016

This: Speaking of Fidel Castro, have you seen the 1964 Soviet-Cuban film 'Soy Cuba'? Herein is a reminder that Cuba was once a playground for rich American tourists and gangsters where glaring disparities of wealth persisted, although the country was one of the most economically advanced in the Caribbean. Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Copolla were instrumental in the ressurection and re-release of this beautiful masterpiece in 1995.

 

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POETRY

November 24, 2016

The inimitable William S. Burroughs performing his poem 'A Thanksgiving Prayer'. So much timely truth.

For John Dillinger
In hope he is still alive
"Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986"

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. 
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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