"Breasts" by Erren Kelly

they are the first thing i notice

when i see a woman

now, that i'm

older, i try to be less obvious

at looking at them

but some breasts just

jump out at you

like headlights

in the fog

which a girl

i dated in maine took me

to

when i lived there

i saw the portland

headlight and we later

made out in her

jeep cherokee and i fondled

her headlights

and she smiled and said

" you like these,

eh?"

what can i say?

it is a fixation

that goes back to my college days

one of my college girlfriends

had 42c's and though she made

me wait months

before i slept with her

she would let me suck and fondle

her fun bags whenever i wanted

until she squealed

an opera singer i dated

in san francisco

had 48E cups

she bragged that in middle school

she had bigger tits than the teacher

she used to own a t-shirt that had

the mars candy logo

which covered her massive cleavage

with the slogan "indescribably delicious"

her mother made her get rid of

that shirt

another college girlfriend

went to bed with me

on the second date

and though

she only had a master's degree

in social work

she was proud of her

ph.dds

i think my breast fixation was caused

by not being breast fed as a baby

sometimes, just looking at objects

that resemble mammary glands

will trigger a palovian response

pillows remind me of a girl who

played in the marching band with me

in high school

we were "friends with benefits"

before it was called that

she bet me once i

couldn't make her come just

by sucking on

her funbags

she lost

grapefruits remind me of

a woman whose breasts i brushed

against by accident on the 6 train

at rush hour once

she just smiled

pears remind me of a girl

i knew in college

who was a good Christian bitch

but had the perkiest bits

my child hood friend lee-lee

who was the neighborhood

tomboy used to play baseball

and football with me and the guys

until one day she stopped

then i noticed her in high school

her breasts had gotten big as basketballs

and i stopped seeing her as "one of the guys"

on lexington avenue, i saw women

wearing pink t-shirts that say

" boobs on the move,

to fight breast cancer,"

and i smile knowing

some people aren't politically correct

there’s nothing like a

a nice jewish girl with

tig o bitties

and as i'm looking at a

painting of a woman's breasts

the painter/photographer

explains the painting to

me so scholarly and unerotic

which actually makes it more

erotic to me

denise tells me she enlarged the woman's

breasts

for effect and i tell her

if i did the same thing

feminists would

be all over

me

she brags she's not a prude or a puritan

which i love

but i try not to be obvious

about it

as i slyly check out her

chi chis under her white

cotton blouse

denise is holding a peegal

which is a hybrid of pekinese and beagal

and i'm no longer astounded by the

wonders of scientists, doctors

or plastic surgeons

if veterinarians

can mash up two breeds of dogs

and invent a new breed

then a plastic surgeon can turn

plain janes like carmen electra and pamela anderson lee

into bombshells

denise's breasts are perfect

i wouldn't change them for anything

i would place them in my mouth

like ripe fruit

remembering what my mother once

told me

"you play the game in the uniform

you were given"

anything more than a mouthful is wasted