BODY IMAGE Poem: mOoBS, by Lester Batiste

Gynaecomastia: Enlargement of a man’s breast, usually due to hormone imbalance or hormone therapy.

When I was thirteen and first arrived on campus,
you two helped me gain attention during football
preseason. Bigger areolas topped by little
chocolate hershey kisses dripped with sweat
as mahogany mole hills tussled with Job Leva.

In the weight room, dark knots extended to boughs
above the bench, but below the rusted bar. Crevices
or black hairs of thread covered the ski slopes
groomed after every shower in the locker rooms,
dormitory lavatories, under bridges, in open quarries.

If bra fillings got grades you two black minions in my
Underground storage closet would be a solid “B”.
Potentially a “B+” when I was younger. Now that
I am older, my melons are still here. Maybe cause
I climb trees on the backs of corn husk leaves or

chief cheesesteaks from Al’s on 7th street. My roommate,
Miles, was amazed and shocked when he saw you two
just recently. His eyes bulged in disbelief, “Damn Will, I
Aint know you had chi-chi’s, TITS, Tay-tas, Twin Peaks
that grow by the week. The internal rivalry of your bodies

Twin cities–Minne and Paul. I ain’t know you had two
midgets wrestling in your front pockets. How do you see
over them two oblong CoCo puffs? Do you look around them
Or is your cleavage enough to see straight through?
Did boys laugh at you in the football locker-rooms too?”