What Are Big Girls Made Of? Poem Rhyme Scheme

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bone and sinew	A
belly and breasts elbows and liver and toe	B
She is manufactured like a sports sedan	A
She is retooled refitted and redesigned	C
every decade	D
Cecile had been seduction itself in college	E
She wriggled through bars like a satin eel	F
her hips and ass promising her mouth pursed	G
in the dark red lipstick of desire	H
	-
She visited in ' still wearing skirts	I
tight to the knees dark red lipstick	J
while I danced through Manhattan in mini skirt	K
lipstick pale as apricot milk	L
hair loose as a horse's mane Oh dear	M
I thought in my superiority of the moment	N
whatever has happened to poor Cecile	F
She was out of fashion out of the game	O
disqualified disdained dis	P
membered from the club of desire	H
	-
Look at pictures in French fashion	A
magazines of the th century	Q
century of the ultimate lady	Q
fantasy wrought of silk and corseting	L
Paniers bring her hips out three feet	R
each way while the waist is pinched	S
and the belly flattened under wood	T
The breasts are stuffed up and out	U
offered like apples in a bowl	V
The tiny foot is encased in a slipper	H
never meant for walking	L
On top is a grandiose headache	W
hair like a museum piece daily	Q
ornamented with ribbons vases	X
grottoes mountains frigates in full	Y
sail balloons baboons the fancy	Q
of a hairdresser turned loose	Z
The hats were rococo wedding cakes	A2
that would dim the Las Vegas strip	B2
Here is a woman forced into shape	C2
rigid exoskeleton torturing flesh	D2
a woman made of pain	A
	-
How superior we are now see the modern woman	A
thin as a blade of scissors	E2
She runs on a treadmill every morning	L
fits herself into machines of weights	F2
and pulleys to heave and grunt	N
an image in her mind she can never	H
approximate a body of rosy	Q
glass that never wrinkles	G2
never grows never fades She	Q
sits at the table closing her eyes to food	H2
hungry always hungry	Q
a woman made of pain	A
	-
A cat or dog approaches another	H
they sniff noses They sniff asses	X
They bristle or lick They fall	I2
in love as often as we do	J2
as passionately But they fall	I2
in love or lust with furry flesh	D2
not hoop skirts or push up bras	K2
rib removal or liposuction	A
It is not for male or female dogs	L2
that poodles are clipped	M2
to topiary hedges	N2
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If only we could like each other raw	O2
If only we could love ourselves	P2
like healthy babies burbling in our arms	Q2
If only we were not programmed and reprogrammed	R2
to need what is sold us	S2
Why should we want to live inside ads	T2
Why should we want to scourge our softness	S2
to straight lines like a Mondrian painting	L
Why should we punish each other with scorn	A
as if to have a large ass	K2
were worse than being greedy or mean	A
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When will women not be compelled	U2
to view their bodies as science projects	V2
gardens to be weeded	W2
dogs to be trained	X2
When will a woman cease	Y2
to be made of pain	A

Marge Piercy

What Are Big Girls Made Of? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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