Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork is Richard Brautigan's ninth poetry publication.

Published in 1976, the book includes 127 poems.

[1] The four line title poem discusses the effort and interest in undertaking an obviously impossible task, such as loading the liquid metal Mercury using only a pitchfork.

Loading mercury with a pitchfork your truck is almost full.

"Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork" (1971)[1]