"Heavy Chested," A Poetry Post

When grandma and them used to say
a gal was heavy chested
they suggested it like
"heavy" was a state of width or girth,
like the "heavy" was the bounce
or the jiggle,
like the "heavy" was a
part of the overall body weight.

What they didn't say was
heavy chested is like
having a hard time
finding a bra to
hold all the parts in place that

heavy chested is
going out of the way to
find the right cup size on the
right band that

heavy chested is
rearranging
the way you sleep on your
pillow
so you don't get your
breasts all
twisted up under your
forearms and
shoved up in your
face that

heavy chested is
having to lock them thangs down
when you have to move any faster than a
brisk walk that

heavy chested is like a
perpetual state of caution
when you walk into a crowd
where there is a remote possibility
for rubbing up your
fluffy stuff against somebody's
upper arm by mistake.

This is what they did not say,
but we understand that.

How could they have said it and
still be muted?

Didn't they say,
"Don't let yourself jiggle all over the place.
Get you a girdle and
hold it all in?"

-T. D. James-Moss