Sirens

Last resort lane, ladies charming suited lames in grey Mercedes

Short shorts with big baps doing street laps pleading, small heat maps

Selling their meat even when they’re bleeding

Cheeks hard from backhands, street’s hard better back glance

Some of them damaged by sexual animals, others fifth chancers

Keep fleeing rehab at the first chance, one or two former dancers 

Who missed college by an answer, unacknowledged cancer 

Sandwiched between bandits, last unmanned flat on the baddest landing

Men lying flat on uncarpeted, paint-splatted planks

Surrounded by empty gas

Canisters like a ghoulish pile of mustard-wrecked Tommies.

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