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The Two by Vincent Pruitt
With long, fire fingers of nacre-gloss nails,
Castrati grace and dazzling golden pony-tailed hair,
He hovered the brick-layed streets of Paris in
Dandy clothes, a fop of sensitivity and the unreal,
Prone to allergies and Heavenly in his unearthliness--
An aloof gentleman beyond reproach.
Her manner, borne of the vulgar and uncouth,
Was bred in a sty of cheap cigarettes, booze surfeit,
Curse words, prostitution and conniving
All for Self--
Her thick lipstick staining her voluptuous lips red
On layer on unremoved layer, striking eyebrows,
Haughty features on milk-white-necro skin with a
Splash and dash of revolting colors for dress,
In unmatching oblivion and frenzy,
But in full consistency with her insouciance,
Her self-love and fickle opinions.
In grandiose style,
Literally running into each other
On the Sun-beaten bricks of a back street alley,
She made sudden then gradual acquaintance
Ultimately into her boudoir.
She would dig her claws painfully and deeply
Into the smoothness of his back,
Drawing grooves, massaging and kneading
His gentle backbone into her form
Until he compromised.
By ways of streets and romance, all fell aside.
Shortly she walked on to another.
He sat sobbing, adrift on a
Violent sea of remorse built on nothing.
Nothing but to build until he saw another
Walking the streets of Paris, blithely and lithe.
An angel.
bio: Vincent Pruitt:
I'm a published writer of poetry and short stories-- some
odd 26 poems or so and one short story in zines such as
Joey and the Black Boots, Zen and the Couch Potato Rambo,
some e-zine web sites, in Manhattan, Kansas' Sunflower Anthology,
UMKC's school newspaper and in UMKC's Number One literary
magazine. I've also worked as an editorial office assistant
for UMKC's New Letters literary magazine and was a writer
for the school newspaper while I was a student at Southwest
High School. Even more, I've done documentation projects
in my field of endeavor, software development.
visit his website at http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Palace/7940/
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