Between the Breasts
Between the Breasts - meaning Summary
Objectified Bodies and Desire
This poem depicts a speaker observing rough, intoxicated men who gather around and lie between the breasts of a woman named Marj, and later sleep between another woman Lil’s legs. It presents bodies reduced to appetite and possession, highlighting physicality, commerce, and celebration of brutish desire. The tone is both blunt and ironic, exposing how these men’s hands and bodies claim the women while revealing a ritualized, almost public display of animalistic intimacy.
Read Complete Analysesbetween the breasts of bestial Marj lie large men who praise Marj's cleancornered strokable body these men's fingers toss trunks shuffle sacks spin kegs they curl loving around beers the world has these men's hands but their bodies big and boozing belong to Marj the greenslim purse of whose face opens on a fatgold grin hooray hoorah for the large men who lie between the breasts of bestial Marj for the strong men who sleep between the legs of Lil
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