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SHOPPING FOR A BREAST

May

What is the proper attitude
one assumes
when shopping for a breast?
Naming it a prosthesis
may be more dignified
but in my mind the two
do not equate.
Just walk right up and say,
"I need a ....a...a....."
Does one confront this task
-seriously?
-jokingly?
-alone?
Remember when I
-hid behind towels?
-coughed in church to
avoid saying that word?
-ordered a chicken leg
when I really wanted
a....a.....a.....

From Journey Unknown (Journey Press, 1994)
© 1994, Margaret Phalor Barnhart


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