marlene mountain
one-line haiku sequence
october 1983

a second sequence for w

house payments forever or until the bomb
l0 minutes or is it 6 now
get a letter hard to write back
not the inflated 20 cents
stuff i just can't say sloppy trying
oh the yearning
wanda come see me and talk your talk
mine too
would offend all but the already knowing
sober or not
fuck the bible fuck the constitution fuck the fuck
ain't easy is it
wild men can only be atheists and anarchists
we are women