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OWG
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since 2001-03-19
Posts 155
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0 posted 2002-01-18 02:39 PM


Back Street Club
good name for
the street
where desire
spends sin aroma
on the breeze

and the clatter
of a dancer's steps
between sets
at Big Joe's
then resting her legs
across a leather lap

she smokes a wheatstraw
with imagination
passes it back
to the tombstone man
that takes her for rides
on Harley iron, some sundays

he polishes her thighs
with trigger fingers
she rambles about his tattoos
and how the first time
she saw him
she was afraid

but now she
is terrified
when he
looks the other way
and leaves her lust
empty

the bouncer yells
she is back up in 5
to pick up bills
with her straps
and put smiles
between old mens legs

another hour
of Back Street Sin

©OWG (by request)

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Startime
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1 posted 2002-01-18 02:52 PM


To me this is a sad but honest view of the life some lead whether by choice or circumstances...How very sad it felt to me. You have portrayed it very well. **big hugs**

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

Victoria
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2 posted 2002-01-18 02:55 PM


i always wanted to be a dancer
in a back street alley ha.. W.A.

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

                                                -Ziggy

His Poet
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since 2001-12-18
Posts 750

3 posted 2002-01-18 03:04 PM


OWG, you painted such a colorful portrait of this scene in my mind. Wonderful job you did with your words. I loved this. Cheryl
BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549
By the Seaside
4 posted 2002-01-18 03:53 PM


Yea it's a good name for a club,
but that doesn't mean I'd want to frequent the place.     
OWG, you may not paint the prettiest pictures
but the fact is you can make them come alive without
the glossy polish.  You be the man!!  

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