Tuesday, June 4, 2013

"The lovely ladies who line these streets . . ."

The lovely ladies who line these streets may not be trusted
to keep secrets. They sell their wares with stories told
by others, to whom they told the original,
their bodies bearing the stains and scars of their trade,
knowing what they must do to feed and clothe and house
the little ones without fathers begat before the pill.

4 June 2013

copyright 2013 by Floyce Alexander

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