'Woman Sitting At The Machine, Thinking' (extract) by Karen Brodine read by Aideen Doran. This is an extract from the collection 'Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking: Poems by Karen Brodine' it was first published by Red Letter Press in 1990. A transcript can be found at https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PFnJ_m2AAw4C&lpg=PA12&ots=LiB34QIsaj&dq=Karen%20Brodine%20they%20write%20you%20up%20if%20you're%20three%20minutes%20late&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q=Karen%20Brodine%20they%20write%20you%20up%20if%20you're%20three%20minutes%20late&f=false More from Aideen Doran can be found at https://adoran.co.uk