OUR BREASTS

(For Sister Warriors Beverly, Essie, Karen & Minnie) 

by 

Chinwe Odeluga 

Rachel Carson’s breasts ask

if the environment is better, 

Audre Lorde’s liver cries for

no breast cancer spreads. 

And Patti La Belle’s other

sisters sing for a cure. 

For even with our 

own Health Office, 

Answers come real real 

slow for the women. 

And we get more diagnosis

and less prevention. 

But our breasts refuse 

to be dismissed, 

Between the xray, slash,

burn, poison and death. 

And we stand breast to 

breast for our sisters. 



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