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Open Poetry #32

Hootchy Mamas

dingusjr
Member

since 2003-09-24

Posts 415
Missouri

0 posted 2004-06-02 10:02 AM

Here's to all the hootchy mamas
standing on the street corner
broad hips beckoning
men to their side.

In stiletto heels
short skirts or
thigh high boots
they try to earn their way
to the next meal,
bed,
needle.

Red lips like wounds
across their faces,
their long finger nails
are lethal weapons.

Hootchy mamas,
hootchy mamas
on the street corner
in their short skirts,
trying to survive.

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

1 posted 2004-06-02 02:40 PM

And through your words, we see them vividly... Excellent write!

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

2 posted 2004-06-02 02:42 PM

Actually, I find this sad. Sad that anyone should have to survive in such a manner. I agree, it is a very vivid depiction.

Susan

The whole of the Universe resides within each individual heart.

Bonnie j
Senior Member

since 2003-06-27

Posts 1588
Ohio

3 posted 2004-06-02 08:13 PM

In many a case Hot Hootchy Mamas are stil just young babies trying to survive in this generation of to busy to care.
Sad poem but a good write.
BonBon

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Member Rara Avis

since 2003-01-23

Posts 7026
Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

4 posted 2004-06-02 10:01 PM

This makes me think of a photograph, taken at night by streetlight....you caught them perfectly, both the predatory mask and the desperation behind it.

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iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

5 posted 2004-06-02 10:03 PM

Great write, unfortunate story.

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