Shex: The Flesh Instinct (/) Poem by Jordan Legaspi

SHEX: The Flesh Instinct


Neon lights and silvery music fills the alley
Of different faces, of its venture fumes the air
The joke of her conversation, come what may
While the smokes linger -to signify the queer;

The cold night starts to build the usual business:
some in their painted big-smile, to hide her pain,
others in their jovial look, the impression of fancy kiss,
few still, the crowning jewels of her lustful scene;

And she was their center stage, their live show:
the Venus waist-laid to Mars is an inkling altar;
the innocence of man to enchant devious, tasteful owe.
The night is in triumph; Alas! The naked hour;

The agent of desire, she is the malicious price in trance,
The rider of souls -the race to reach the heave





Note:
18 February 2010, Davao City, Philippines

P.U.B. (Pick Up Boys Collection) Issue # 06 series of 2010
The poem was all about the 'main street' of the cities where prostitution is for sale along with its side business: bar-houses that offers live-shows, motels and lodges. The 'SHEX: The Flesh Instinct' is a pseudo-name of every ‘she' and ‘he' who ventured to their 'animal appetite' and to feed their lustful-greed.