
Loading Mercury With A Pitchfork
Brautigan, Richard145 USD
Date
1976
Category
Short Stories
Description
Loading Mercury With A Pitchfork is Brautigan's ninth poetry publication. The book includes 127 poems. The four line title poem discusses the effort and intrest in undertaking an obviously impossible task, such as loading the liquid metal Mercury with only a pitchfork.
Excerpt
NOBODY KNOWS
WHAT THE EXPERIENCE IS WORTH
Nobody knows what the experience is worth
but it's better than sitting on your hands,
I keep telling myself.

