After The UPS Man Shouted "Feed Your Baby At Home" Through His Truck Window
.......Beauford, North Carolina May 2007
Bionic Feeding Woman
whips breasts out, sprays
privacy netting over him,
through the window. She slays
public ignorance. Offensive,
angry and green, she stays
right where she is, extensive
superpower network plays
the news: Continental Airlines,
2003, Deborah Wolf charged
a terrorist during times
of war for milky discharge
in the face of passenger
complaint; Toys R Us
September 2006, stranger
for a children's store to fuss
when Chelsi Meyerson
busted out her right to feed
in the store's corner, shunned
by five harassing employees
who called security. Cover-up!
Applebees' manager told
Brooke, mother of 8. Cover up!
insisted the United steward,
throwing a used blanket across
Alina and her baby Rose.
Captain Areola, Boob Boss,
Mutant Nipple, each goes
on nursing, fighting the disease
of propriety like diaper rash,
growing muscles, curing degrees
of fever with a stubborn milky cache.
-Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Used by permission.
Melisa "Misha" Cahnmann-Taylor is the co-author of Teachers Act Up! Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre (2010, Teachers College Press) and Arts-Based Research in Education: Foundations for Practice (2008, Routledge) and has published poetry and reviews in many journals including APR, Alaska Quarterly, Georgia Review, Barrow Street and Quarterly West. She won the 2004, 2005, and 2008 Dorothy Sargent Prizes. Cahnmann-Taylor is Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia.
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