Exotic Dancer Poem by Trinidad Villafranca

Glamour in a bottle
She begins to apply
Transparent heels
Her body she reveals

DJ announces her name
In vain she enters the stage

Spotlights music starts
Crowd applauding
She begins to move
Her body as one
Intertwined with a pole
For only a moment she fills a hole
The audience doesn't see

A moment of fame
Where everyone knows her name
She releases a lifetime of pain

She floats across the stage
Body moving to the music
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The night slowly ends
And her life begins
Glamour in a bottle
She softly removes
Heels to slippers
Clothes she to hide her bare body
cover the imperfections the lights seem to hide
The glamour comes off
The bruises come back to light

Exotic dancer on stage
No one knows her name
Exotic dancer