Red Light District

Short shorts skirts and spike heeled shoes

In the Red light District of your town

On the darkened street corners

There's pleasures of the flesh to be found.


Blondes, brunettes and redheads

Working girls they are.

They earn their living selling flesh

To hungry men with expensive cars.


In the Red light District of your town

Law Enforcement lies in wait.

To persecute and to arrest

Using decoys as bait.


You'd think that the Police

Would have better things to do.

The streets are filled with criminals

That prey on me and you.


Cheap Motels and alcohol

In the Red light District of your town.

No matter what your looking for

Cheap Thrills do abound.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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Ramage Avatar
July 27, 2011 at 12:53 AM
Another great poem Brian. I do worry about these working girls (and boys). I believe that if this is their choice to do this, that's fine, but I worry about human trafficking. Just maybe , that is what the police are worried about also. Take care Lee
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