The Secretary Chant by Marge Piercy

Piercy choose to call the poem a "chat" because in the poem it compares a women to a office desk with supplies, which is what most people thought a women should do, is to work behind a desk. All she is now is part of the desk and is no longer a women but a useful tool. This is something she would be out protesting about, which is why she called the poem a "chant". In the poem, she would compare office supply's to a woman's body. Hips are a desk, rubber bands form my hair, head is a organized file. When I read this poem I had a visual of what she might look like with each item. She made it humorous by comparing her body to office supplies. And by stating that she once was a women and now she is just part of the desk.

Words to look up:
mimeograph-a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
casters-A small wheel on a swivel, attached under a piece of furniture or other heavy object to make it easier to move.