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Portrait of a Prostitute by ~Alisonia:iconAlisonia:





Portrait of a Prostitute


I am your plastic shopping bag
used once, filled up, crumpled, discarded.

I am your by-the-hour rental car, driven
to the ground, engine exhausted.

I am the lovely roast you bought,
stuffed with your onion.

I am the cow’s hide
scald me, bleed me with your iron.

I am the glass you dropped, shattered,
shards crunched under your heels.

I am your wives, daughters, mothers,
ravaged by urges you try to conceal.

© Alison Cornellier
©2005-2009 ~Alisonia
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Submitted: July 13, 2005
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wow. i never thought of it that way. great poem
:)

thanks for the read.
Great piece here, although i am the immature one to smirk at 'stuffed with your onion.'
But overall it does show a sense of new thinking, welldone :)

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♥ Could a flame ever burn for a match and a stick?
It did quite literally; he burned up quick. ♥
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oo interesting perspective from a prostitute... hehe I didn't notice stuffed with ut onion un til ^ pointed it out =P

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I am me, no I am me, no I am me
mmmm what is good about this that it focuss on the user and their not caring instead of the normal attack the used.. thoughtful cool stuff this

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I love your comments and your textures
The rhythm of this is fantastic! Especially 'by-the-hour rental car-...that sounds SO good. I'll be saying that in my head all day. It's just one of those things that sounds good, like 'cellar door'. I've just realised that it sounds completely different in my Belfast accent than it would to you when you wrote it, or to pretty much anyone else in the world. But it's still cool :)

I like the approach you've taken on this. It doesn't make the prostitute sound like an evil person or a poor little victim, which is what most portrayals seem to do. It makes her a very objective person, an observer, someone who can make sense of things. I love the line 'stuffed with your onion'. That just kicks ass on so many levels.

The last bit is great...it shows how anyone can end up in a certain situation, and how every woman that people look down on is someone's wife, mother or daughter.

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welcome to the dark side
kick-start your horror art here . . .
:rofl:
you're supposed to smirk ;)

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