Wednesday, March 7, 2018

day FOUR HUNDRED and TWELVE

Vocabulary Builders

Like pieces of fruit
exposed to radiation
they grew
the summer I turned thirteen.

AA to DD in just three months!

That September I was queen
of the girl’s locker room.
Even the rich girls in lace
panty and bra sets
quit being mean.

Boys talked about me now
and I overheard:

breasts boobs knockers
hooters honkers zonkers tits
mammeries zobies lungs

My vocabulary grew
like an infestation of fruit flies—
nothing could stop it.

-Donna Hilbert

from Deep Red, Event Horizon Press


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