marlene mountain
one-line haiku sequence
may-july 1982
distracted sequences
spring thunder office talk of lay-offs
women first
monday morning it comes
not in the budget
the pink slip with no pink to it
warm coffee the heaton principle fishing the first day
not to bathe not to set the clock
an era ending with none beginning
update of resume doesn't
don't tell anyone you can type
closeness of throwing up
one stop light to the next the plan forgotten
double checking the checkbook
shafted yet wanting it up to the neck
slow drain of scotch
who am i silence of the moon
clean sheetsdull forms to fill out in dull pencil
another statistic
oh you're an artist how wonderful
do not mutilate
instruction booklet how to be unemployed
the waiting period
just wanna get home just wanna get home
sun does shine my back door
life to organize within manila envelopes
day thoughts my own choosing
monday morning coffee with birds
enough time to be horny
unpredicted benefit midday love
legs
scrambled gathering of rainy salad
garden essence your essence
more in my art than in my life
the ungoodbyeart show taken to where they look
wine turns into dawn
lookin for a man almost any man
lonely headache
your call yes i was discriminating
still your virginream of very blank typing paper opened
which stack to unstack first
finally a list headed 'at some point'
onion brunch
yellow pages can't do that can't do that
county unem16.1%ploymentthere ain't no jobs he says digging wild shrubs to sell
who hires a braless jeaned woman
surely it's been written country song up shit creek
the mind of us swallowed
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resorting to off-brand ginall kinds of us hairy tattoos baby-hipped woman
no one really looks at another
room full of humans told to fill out more forms
closed door lecture on fraud
women whisper houses clean top to bottom
hitchhiker with paper bagat forty-two prospect of minimum wage if any
first unemployment check the heat
mail carrier a little more of my life showing
wing flutter pasted to the blacktop
up late unable unwilling to read nature poems
unoneness of realityprotest painting on government time and money
first amendment not fifth
a long day of worry a long moment keenly perceived
short poem unhidden meaning
letter of a fan calls them steamy and funny
a bunch deadly serious
haiku:life birds for some unbirds for another
satisfied life society
a fifteen dollar magazine starts up
birdfull?
holy cow the only cussin i know in goddess
'full moon causes sinkhole'sex now lasts only as long as it lasts
distracted sequences
old paperback dictionary in three uneven pieces
mother's underlined humble
western half-assed zen fill out the form
the joke of three lineslove in dingle dangle phone booth quarters
your one line
forgot to say keep fingers crossed for blood
controversy due in the mags
nothing obscure when a woman accuses the system
ukiah dessipfar away women practice the woman poems
'yoni'
whispers chant one should have been shouted
questions to a lesbian
woman art explanations to a gay bar cock
do it anyway
old job offered three day week
didn't live on 5
paint stare into space love stare into space read
what day is this
attempt at beating the streets no stomach
birds the heat
three ante meridian brother's daddy is dead call
not looking
all overridden by the preacher's brainwashed rigmarole
don't want men to teach history anymore
beneath fake grass rugs hard clods of old indian earth
your path is yours to findplane to bloody mary to plane to another
first mountain from the vw
the crescent settles deeply into home's sky
soap opera of world news
certainly, i'll take part-time, whatever
(tired of being nice)
Wind Chimes #7 1983