Best Mammogram Poems

That mammogram! That mammogram!
I do not like that mammogram!

Would you like it on a couch?
I think that I would still say ouch!
Would you like it with champagne?
I think that I would still complain.

I do not like that mammogram.
I’d rather eat green eggs and ham.

Would you...

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She stood there
humiliated,
nearly naked
as a
stranger
touched her.
She was
searching for
something
she could not see,
she could not feel:
A silent killer,
a raper of
self-esteem,
identity,
womanhood. 
She endured it,
the pain,
the embarrassment,
because
her mother
had died
and she would
survive....

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In the waiting room …
A sea of ashen faces 
Women with their partners
We were waiting, just waiting
My name is called
Heart pounding I gather by belonging
My husband gets up …
But he’s told he can’t come in with me
I feel vulnerable and alone 
In the little cubicle...

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Women over fifty
need to have a mammogram yearly,
It is an important test
that involves squeezing a woman's breast.


It is for cancer screening
but leaves some women really screaming,
Place your breast on machine which
clamps down on it like a fish sandwich.


Then it's tender to the touch
not many women...

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I never go to the doctor, I never am that ill
But once a year regardless, I go in for my big thrill.
As a bigger breasted woman, a mammogram I must receive
Each and every year and so I've come to believe
It's a punishment for those endowed...

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Ode To A Mammogram

Checking the calendar for appointments to be made
I come across a giant circle that I placed there yearly
take another day off work and dress for the parade

I’ve lost a list of many friends who I loved so dearly
a simple test they could...

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MAMMOGRAM

The doctor sent me for a mammogram
He said it was the right thing to do.
'It's only a simple little check-up,
Making sure all's clear with you'.

Not aware of what lay ahead,
I was in for a dreadful shock.
The nurse said to take off my bra,
Then plopped my...

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Mammogram central
They are asking me questions
I have no answers
Where did I have my last mammogram?
I thought I had it here
The last one they can find was 12 years ago
I am unconcerned
My breast looks like it is healing
I feel good
Even though they squeezed my girls
Scrunched up...

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When told she’d have to remove
her blouse and bra, she hesitated.
“I’m not comfortable exposing
my breasts without clothing,
my husband would not approve.
Besides, she said somewhat irritated,
don’t x-rays see through clothing?”  
Yes, they do, said the male attendant –
it’s my eyes that can’t.

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While waiting for my mammogram,
A most annoying test,
I had a thought no poetry
Has up to now addressed.

About the ones whose job is
Squeezing every woman’s breast 
And manipulating angles
‘Til it’s properly finessed.

With each mammary maneuver,
Getting patients more distressed,
She keeps kneading and adjusting,
Like a potter who’s possessed.

What...

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I have no idea how long it has been since I have been here.
A couple of years? I guess.
Try eleven, the nurse tells me.
She is wearing little pink mounds on her scrubs; cute!
Is that bad?
It’s not good, the nurse says sternly.
She squeezes me up into...

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A mammogram’s not what gals cherish.
The pressure is truly nightmarish.
But what if the guys
unbuttoned their flies
and felt the same squeeze… they would perish....

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