Amazon Chest

The Amazon chest I ordered last week

was mistakenly delivered to a house down the street.

This got me to thinking about what’s in a name.

What’s Amazon mean besides the longest river

and the preposterous claim

about female warriors stripped of a breast

from left side of their Amazonian chests

so they could shoot arrows along with the best.

Yet neither breasts nor boobs bound or removed

help female archers or in any way improve

their shooting or fighting or even delighting

and now with all the plastic polluting that’s frightening

I’m questioning all I’ve been taught in school.

Indeed, what I’ve learned makes me mostly a fool.

So it may be time to be taught once again

about all the ideas I thought were my friends.

And what do you think? Are we on the brink

of usurping mentations that we all thought were in sync?