POETRY Reading: The Shape of Me, by Joanne DeTore
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1m 22s
Performed by Val Cole
POEM:
36- 26 -36
My measurements were an hour glass shape
Before children
After children
Before menopause
Before breast cancer
Doctors scooped out cancer like ice cream
a triple scoop, a banana split of tissue
until I was left with divots
valleys or hollows haunting me in the mirror after my shower
a river of angry red stitches surrounding the bottom,
u-shaped moat or the demented smile of a clown
My body is an amorphous shape
not quite a rectangle, not a pear or apple
too small in places that were too big
too big in places that were so small
the hour glass only measures time
grains of sand run faster than liquid through a sieve
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