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r&r for a whore



can’t remember her own name anymore
she’s Marilyn for the romance novelist
Mistress Sabrina for the prize fighter
& Mother for the really sick contingent

can’t hold an apartment in Protestant society
husbands abandoned, kids taken away
Dom Perignon is tonic for the pain
caviar is sweeter laced with cocaine
clitoris edited & abridged for recreational sex

men with penthouses & too much money
& who says a lady’s pale back wasn’t
meant for extinguishing cigarettes?
she was never promised a heaven
rest & recuperation
she reckons she’ll find it in hell

her college professor always told her
she was only good for one thing
until you factor in oral & anal
expensive cosmetics & an hour in hot curlers
won’t make her queen of the night
even a swamp toad knows
there ain’t no woman
as beautiful as the sunset

she’s a harlot of the upper avenues
paid escort of skyscraper princes
cocktail hustler, courtesan-in-secret
& she wonders if she will ever be
simply a woman again…


(Art: Marco Rubiero)


Written by JohnFeddeler
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