Boobs Away! revisited -- then and now "the dairy industry can go have a cow" -- #poetry #amreading #LGBTQ #govegan
- Janet Mason
- Aug 30
- 3 min read
Lately, I've been thinking about the importance of connecting the dots between the past and present. I was a poet before I was a prose writer, and I decided to find my broadside of Boobs Away and bring the poem back to you!
The video of me reading the poem now is below, and under that I pasted the text of the poem.
Boobs Away!
By Janet Mason
Stealth boobs, uni-boobs and B-52-boobs, big brassy boobs
Boobs boobs and more boobs falling from the blue boob sky
scatter boobless armies and hordes of screaming flat-chested marines
The boobs are vaulting over underwired barricades of the boob patrol
The boobs are marching through history shaking off corsets and tight bodices
The boobs will not be painted cherry red
The boobs are no longer in training bra torture contraptions
The boobs are shaking free of phallic points and other misconstructions
The boobs will not wear prom dresses—
The boobs sport army boots
And stomp out their mother’s frustrations
The boobs inhabit silicon trenches of rage
The boobs refuse to be ogled. They will be licked and sucked and
Caressed only for their own pleasure!
The boobs jump off glossy pages to claim the shapes they are:
lots of little boobs big balloon boobs lopsided boobs galore Yes!
One bigger than the other, hanging a little lower, pointing off in
different directions.
The boobs shoot off their mouths on whatever subject moves them!
The boobs demand acceptance for their basic boob selves
They refuse to even think about being any more perfect than they are
They revel in their differences, pear shaped and oblong, saggy down to
the waist, flipping out to the sides, nipples sprouting hairs in proud
boob beards!
The boobs refuse to be replaced by impostors
one boob, two boobs, double mastectomies, phantom boobs, third nipple
Boobs
Boobs All!
BIG BAD BOOBS
Boobs stand strong in Boob Solidarity
Burn The Bras Before The Bras Burn You
The word Implants is not even in the boob vocabulary!
The boobs will not be reduced!
The boobs refuse to be airbrushed!
The boobs are not anyone’s fantasy—except their own!!
The boobs announce their independence from the AMA
The boobs will go through menopause without pregnant horse piss!
The boobs are fleeing fields of tumors—
The boobs have tofu and cabbage and miso soup tea parties at two
The boobs declare freedom from pesticides
As far as the boobs are concerned, the dairy industry can go have a
cow! The boobs demand organic vegetables!
The boobs will not be seduced by the boob tube!!
The boobs declare their animosity to forced cleavage!
They raid department stores and use WonderBras for slingshots
The boobs will have their way!
The boobs are unbridled!
The boobs will not fall into the same old booby traps!!
(Janet Mason 2001)
CINNAMON, my most recent novel, is available on amazon.com: Cinnamon: A dairy cow’s (and her farmer’s) path to freedom: Mason, Janet: 9781958419786: Amazon.com: Books
CINNAMON is also available through your local bookstore and library
(just ask them to order it if they don’t have it).
For more information on my novel THEY, a biblical tale of secret genders published by Adelaide Books click here.
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For more information on my novel Loving Artemis, an endearing tale of revolution, love, and marriage, click here.
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