marlene mountain
one-line haiku sequence
september 1985

pissed off poems and cross words

late night without mahler

1

peace banner moves all but those who should be moved
moon craters $25 and up what next
against abortion he tells her after a one night stand
his mother's voice as she talks of aids

2

eleven major living religions manunkind's got
see it says right here god said kill
exhibition of women by male artists
not made in 'his' image - got it?

3

'no proper gikuyu would dream of marrying a girl' uncircumcised *
he owns the land she works it
a second wife she suggests (he's not about to help)
'we don't take our women seriously'

4

after childbirth salt stuffed into her vagina
oh the joy of tight sex
county health department odor of women
unsafe because she is unsafe

5

thousands of women gather and talk in spite of language
all know who the man is

6

heroineetteess
hera was first

* jomo kenyatta (read: clitoridectomy, infibulation, defibulation)

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