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Wednesday, 9 April 2014

Party Time

She had a good figure, precociously attractive 
Her clinging dress cut to show off her her thigh, to declare her bare and beautiful skin open for business

The man, a roughish sort, was bewitched, he clawed at her shoulders, writhed and wrapped his arms around her waist

Another woman, most certainly a woman, gyrated provocatively in front of her silver-haired, dapper, partner; she had the madness of passion in her dancing eyes, her movements had all the makings of a fertility ritual

The smartly dressed man had worked for forty-two years in the same factory, followed by another ten at the service of a global manufacturing industrialist; he was in the company of those who knew him, he stood by those who loved him

The women, and the words, could be from those back copies of Men Only, that he kept, hidden from his mother, inside his record player


This is a poem from Vagaries:
Love of The Key to Room 149
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