Red Lights
red lights blinking rapidly
I didn't make the connection
as soft music floated unseen
from cars heaving with undulating motion
gentle, rhythmic, but forced upon
as ruby lips pressed into service
with legs spread wide, most welcoming
a toll bridge where the final cost
was negotiated and never preset
lying sighs to the different beats
hissing throughout the dead of night
expressing love, but was truly only
an example of cheap gratification
seen within heavily mascaraed eyes
wandering slowly, wondering about their lives
what story or lack thereof brought them to this
fumbling in the back seats of foreign cars
leather smells, the scent of money
or cows, depending on how they are perceived
of fish net stockings, with their scaly look
to hook ones attention, with come hither smiles
even in this seedy world are seen class distinctions
from the two dollar whore to the elegant madam,
who spreads their legs wide, while she reaps the rewards
untouched by the stench of leftover sex
that seeps from the pores of the overused
the numbers counted only upon her gold card
and the status that it so readily affords her
as her girls line up at free clinic doors
curing the diseases of the body but not the mind
what of the two dollar girls, lives exploded
in the harsh glare of the red light district
of addictions that drive them to sacrifice their bodies
let alone their souls to feed the hunger
always present, deep within, gnarling, crawling
an urge that never subsides, only controls
they no longer care of what happens to them
all that remains is the action, or as they lie
covered with another strangers body, the inaction
leading only to the ultimate reward of payment
yes, I visited the seedy underbelly
asks the questions and wondered aloud
but as I left looking back to see those blinking lights
I still made no connection to the lives
that are so sadly parked upon this lonely road
that surely leads to nowhere except their ultimate demise
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