By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 4 June 1999

Montana

I've exhausted all  possibilities
my love life lacks potential
eventually I might break down
and join a convent
or the Sappho Club for Women
but for now I will sustain myself
with masturbation fantasies
of the artist I once bought a print from
and the guy I craved at seventeen
or maybe even the Marlboro Man
just thinking of such a rugged
self-contained masculine mystery
giving it to me relentlessly
on a bearskin rug before a roaring fire
in a small log cabin
hidden in a Montana blizzard
should be enough
to get me through
this current Gobi