marlene mountain
one-line haiku sequence
september 1985

 

pissed off poems and cross words

 

i grow older

1

i grow older radioactive wastes live 250 centuries
old pond a frog rises belly up
year ends another 96 billion lbs of hazardous waste
universe love it or leave it

2

after 'the day after' these are our leading minds?
build down my intelligence offended
balance of terror not how a kid spells peace
marine recruiter won't phone again

3

not against men in general just generals and
autumn nears a gun sale
full moon oh to hex the world back from them
we should have stayed seaweeds

4

farther & farther from the world still i hear the cries
homeland for women
if i were to paint goddess now her angry look
unable to change the world autumn begins


Wind Chimes #18; Kyoto Journal #7 1988;
The Symposium 1:1 1991; Perceptions #22 1990


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