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A gold lion for best poem of the month! Andrew On 22 January 2013 08:28, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > You mean she didn't kill him because he had breasts? I must have misunderstood the headline. > > > > -----Original Message----- >>From: Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> >>Sent: Jan 21, 2013 4:23 PM >>To: [log in to unmask] >>Subject: Re: Woman Kills Boyfriend With Breasts >> >>Sharon May I say doubly outstanding poem? Cheers P >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On >>Behalf Of sharon brogan >>Sent: 19 January 2013 18:00 >>To: [log in to unmask] >>Subject: Woman Kills Boyfriend With Breasts >> >>*Woman Kills Boyfriend With Breasts >>[News headlines 16 January 2013] >> >>at attention, stiff in their uniform >>always they preceded me >>flags of a foreign country >>heralding my arrival before >>the rest of me entered the room >> >>harnessed like oxen >>buried beneath turtlenecks and vests >>caged in nets of wire and lace >>pliable, they complied with the style >>of the day, pointed like armor >> >>or softly curved like cushions >>like pears or apples or melons >>nipples concealed or coyly >>barely pushing against thin >>cotton or silk or satin >> >>released at night >>in the valleys of sleep >>set free on the fields of love >>tongued and bitten and kneaded >>like dough >> >>taunted by gangs of boys >>and men from sidewalks >>and cars, groped in offices >>and classrooms, brushed up >>against in crowded rooms >> >>too often I slept behind them >>as they were held, contained >>in the greedy hands of lovers >>claimed like fish in a trap >>fighting to breathe >> >>I'm up here >> >>* >> >>-- >>sharon brogan >>http://www.sbpoet.com >>http://www.sbpoet.net >>http://smallpoems.sbpoet.net >>406.578.1788 -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ 'Undercover of Lightness' http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html 'Shikibu Shuffle' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html