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beyond the tarnished sunset


‘Dance me to the end of love.’  Leonard Cohen


Savannah Rose, they called her.
in the joints where broken men go to watch naked girls
on a stage, & dream their soiled dreams.

there was nothing unique about her. she had the rhythm to
sway seductively as she danced out of her little outfit. her
body was used & sinful, like every other part-time stripper,
part-time whore. she could be taken, for a price.

after her set, she walked around the room. I told her I was a
weary vet who craved a little company. ‘you want me to join
you, soldier,’ she said. ‘ just show me a smile & a fifty.’ I
never smiled, but she took my fifty anyway.

she sat close, & I could smell her sweat mingled with something
spicy, something precious you would dig in the earth for. I could
linger a long time in that fragrance; she smelled like a woman.

my hands roamed like rabid dogs over the smooth liquid fire of
her skin. she spoke in sultry whispers. her voice was music, a
suite that heralded my assault, as my lips tasted the juncture of
her neck & shoulders. like having sex with our clothes on.

the darkness of the room hid our sordid manipulations. her
fingers discovered my rigid secret, & deftly freed it from its blue
jean prison. after some massaging, she covered my indiscretion
with a linen napkin, & I corrupted the purity of it with a demented
deluge that gushed like a wild river. so full of rage & sorrow was
it that I almost wept.

she did something then that I didn’t expect: she held me close.

later, in my lonely bed, she was there on the private stage
of my dream –

she danced my death & sang my hell…



Written by JohnFeddeler
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