A Thanksgiving Prayer
Ever since I wrote a dark, ridiculous (and apparently unpublishable) book about the First Thanksgiving, the holiday has been bittersweet for me. Not because of my publishing woes. It’s because while writing the book I spent almost an entire year thinking about the holiday. Who among us has spent 12 months thinking about Thanksgiving almost every single day? No one save a few lunatics, the CEO at Butterball, and me.
I came out on the other end of that writing process with a lot of things I didn’t like about the holiday and what it signifies. The problem was, before I started writing that book I loved Thanksgiving. It was probably my favorite holiday because it was just another excuse to crowd around a table with my family and stuff our faces with meat and pie.
Now here is where I was going to write a long list of the things I hate about the holiday, side by side with all of the things I love. But after I wrote it out it didn’t really work. It was just a bunch of floating facts, with little feeling behind them.
So instead I’m going to leave you with two videos which, when taken together, sum up perfectly how I feel about Thanksgiving.
The first is A Thanksgiving Prayer by William S. Burroughs…
Now that you’re all depressed, here’s how the other half of me feels about Turkey Day…
