[Newspoetry] FW: boobs of different kinds

[Robert Porter]

This is my week for found newspoetry ...
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From: JSouthlynn at aol.com
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 09:12:55 EDT


A friend sent this to me. I thought you all might find it as frighteningly
amusing as I did. If one can call this horrid truth amusing. Blessings, JS

From: Jeanne Mitchell <jeanne at themitchells.org>
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:11 PM
To: Aldereu5 at aol.com
Subject: boobs of different kinds


>The following letter was read by the author at this year's In
>Celebration of the Muse, Cabrillo College. She was the highlight of the
>evening.
>I think it  worth knowing that the author is a woman of 60+ years,
>conservatively dressed and obviously quite talented.
>> >>
>========================================================================
>> >>AN OPEN LETTER TO JOHN ASHCROFT,
>> >>  ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>   On January 28, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that
>he
>> >>spent $8,000 of taxpayer's money for drapes to cover up the exposed
>> >>breast of The Spirit of Justice, an 18 ft aluminum statue of a woman
>> >>that stands in the Department of Justice's Hall of Justice.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>   John, John, John, you've got your priorities all wrong.
>> >>
>> >>   While men fly airplanes into skyscrapers,
>> >>
>> >>   dive bomb the pentagon,
>> >>
>> >>   while they stick explosives into their shoes,
>> >>
>> >>    and then book a seat right next to us,
>> >>
>> >>    while they hide knives in their luggage,
>> >>
>> >>    steal kids on school buses,
>> >>
>> >>    take little girls from their beds at night
>> >>
>> >>    drive trucks into our state capital buildings,
>> >>
>> >>    while our president calls dangerous men all over the world
>> >>
>> >>    evildoers and devils,
>> >>
>> >>    while we live in the threat of biological warfare
>> >>
>> >>    nuclear destruction,
>> >>
>> >>    annihilation,
>> >>
>> >>    you are out buying yardage
>> >>
>> >>    to save Americans
>> >>
>> >>    from the appalling
>> >>
>> >>    alarming, abominable
>> >>
>> >>    aluminum alloy of evil,
>> >>
>> >>    that terrible ten foot tin tittie.
>> >>
>> >>    You might not be able to find Bin Laden
>> >>
>> >>    But you sure as hell found the hooter in the hall of justice.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>    It's not that we aren't grateful
>> >>
>> >>    But while we were begging the women of Afghanistan
>> >>
>> >>    To not cover up their faces
>> >>
>> >>    You are begging your staff members to
>> >>
>> >>    Just cover up that nipple
>> >>
>> >>    To save the American people
>> >>
>> >>    From that monstrous metal mammary
>> >>
>> >>    How can we ever thank you?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>    So, in your office every morning
>> >>
>> >>    in your secret prayer meeting
>> >>
>> >>    while an American woman is sexually assaulted every 6 seconds
>> >>
>> >>    while anthrax floats around the post office
>> >>
>> >>    and settles in the chest of senior citizens,
>> >>
>> >>    you've got another chest on your mind.
>> >>
>> >>    While American sons arrive home in body bags
>> >>
>> >>    and heat seeking missiles
>> >>
>> >>    fly around a foreign country
>> >>
>> >>    looking for any warm body
>> >>
>> >>    you think of another body.
>> >>
>> >>    And you pray for the biggest bra in the world John
>> >>
>> >>    because you see that breast on the spirit of justice
>> >>
>> >>    in the spirit of your
>> >>
>> >>    own inhibited sexuality.
>> >>
>> >>    And when we women see
>> >>
>> >>    our grandmothers, our mothers, our daughters, our granddaughters,
>> >>
>> >>    our sisters, ourselves,
>> >>
>> >>    when we women see that
>> >>
>> >>    statue the spirit of justice
>> >>
>> >>    we see the spirit of strength
>> >>
>> >>    the spirit of survival.
>> >>
>> >>    While every day
>> >>
>> >>    we view innocent bodies dragged out of rubble
>> >>
>> >>    and women and children laid out
>> >>
>> >>    like thin limp dolls
>> >>
>> >>    and baptized into death as collateral damage
>> >>
>> >>    and the hollow eyed Afghani mother's milk has dried
>> >>
>> >>    up underneath her burka
>> >>
>> >>    in famine in shame
>> >>
>> >>    and her children are dead at her breast.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>    While you look at that breast John
>> >>
>> >>    that jug on the spirit of justice
>> >>
>> >>    and deal with your thoughts of lust
>> >>
>> >>    and sex and nakedness
>> >>
>> >>    we see it as a testimony to motherhood
>> >>
>> >>    And you see it as a tit.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>    It's not the money it cost.
>> >>
>> >>    It's the message you send.
>> >>
>> >>    We've got the right to live in freedom.
>> >>
>> >>    We've got the right to cheat Americans out
>> >>
>> >>    of millions of dollars and then
>> >>
>> >>    just not want to tell congress about it.
>> >>
>> >>    We've got the right
>> >>
>> >>    to drop bombs night and day
>> >>
>> >>    on a small country that has no army,
>> >>
>> >>    no navy, no military at all,
>> >>
>> >>    because we've got the right to bear arms
>> >>
>> >>    but we just better not even think
>> >>
>> >>    about the right to bare breasts.
>> >>
>> >>    So now John you can be photographed
>> >>
>> >>    while you stand there and talk about
>> >>
>> >>    guns and bombs and poisons
>> >>
>> >>    without the breast appearing over your right shoulder
>> >>
>> >>   without that bodacious bosom bothering you
>> >>
>> >>   and we just wanted to tell you
>> >>
>> >>   in the spirit of justice
>> >>
>> >>   in the spirit of truth
>> >>
>> >>   John there is still one very big boob left standing there in that
>> >>   picture.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>          Claire Braz-Valentine