In keeping with my recent posts on whether or not to reconstruct/replace one's breasts after a mastectomy, I offer one of my poems:
Double Amputee
I have looked this way
before–
flat-chested, pencil-thin
when I was ten
Strange it is to seem
a sexless child
again
(Too bad about
the graying hair
and slightly sagging chin)
(Excerpted from Fine Black LIines (c) 1993, 2003 Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad)
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