Hooker

By shadowsinthelight


I'm cruising, creeping along down the street lamp avenue

I'm searching, watching for the girl with the scuffed up shoes

I see back alley stars needing the cover of night

I see masquerades bleeding under jaundiced light

A pretty marked white face with a south central speak

It's an old, old profession



She’s waving, it really doesn't matter who you are

A warning, a smile will not take you all that far

But for the price she asks you to pay

She will say what you want her to say

She will be who you want her to be

It's an old, old profession



Some call her a whore, a pre-loved girl

Used up by this piece of shit world

Hardened heart, empty of despair

But she's my twenty dollar drive-by love affair

A child of the night, she vanishes with the dawn

Yes, it's an old, old profession


©1998 by Steve Giacomini
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© 2008 shadowsinthelight
Published on Thursday, November 20, 2008.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: Lovely. I love the rhythm. The play by play. Great work. If it weren't for Miss D favoring this piece, I would have missed out on an amazing piece. Thank you.

  • A former member wrote: No comments on this at all? ....a whore, perhaps, but isn't any girl that has ever been loved, a pre-loved girl. an old, old profession indeed, but a fresh and lovely new light by which to see it, a brighter streetlight to stand under and study the cracks in the smile she wears to protect herself.... quite a thought-piece, for me at least.

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