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Grinch Member Elite
since 2005-12-31
Posts 2929Whoville |
She sways, verging on youth, Flashing a smile and a thigh, While pedalling the earth - Sure to move - in provocative ways. Loose lies, easily faked, Sparkle in eyes for the price Of a meal or a room For a lover with strings, unattached Tears dry, easily now, Like the kisses she sold For her babe safe at home Where the necessity of motherhood lives. |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
powerful 'reality write!'... [focuses effectively on one of the many sad corners of the "Runaway American Dream"] Applause!! |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Thought provoking, Grinch. Ida |
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oceanvu2 Senior Member
since 2007-02-24
Posts 1066Santa Monica, California, USA |
Hi Grinch: "verging on youth" -- a neat inversion with a poetic logic distinct from logic logic. Why though is she selling kisses for a room? Doesn't the next stanza say she has a babe "safe at home?" Is it her home? Has it a room? Did the baby kick her out? Best, Jim |
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Grinch Member Elite
since 2005-12-31
Posts 2929Whoville |
Hello Jim, You could ask her yourself.  She’d probably still charge you her normal rate for the answer though - roughly the equivalent of a good meal or a cheap room. She’s a working mother after all and providing a home for her baby isn’t cheap. But then necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. |
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