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Keeping Abreast

By Laura McCollough Moss

Eleven

first stretch bra

creeps up to your armpit when you

raise your hand

Fourteen

self-conscious

what's everybody looking at?

Eighteen

feeling cocky

go ahead and look,

everybody

Twenty-five

nursing babies

form meets function

Forty

first bra over forty dollars

need the lift

the girls are heading south

Fifty

cancer

fuck

all these years attached to

womanhood

who will you be without them?

strong

healthy

beautiful

alive

you're the woman, Baby

they're just boobs