Your wish is my command
I will push back and pull forward
confronting your senses while tearing apart my own
I perform admirably
I hold my head up in the face
there’s only one thing on my mind,
no monthly specials here
no flat ‘on my back’ rate either!
I’m a bargain in the first place, comparatively
they should be so lucky
no chance of getting bored,
I re-invent events
creatively juicy and spicy hot with a side of lies
the blood never drains nor loses its metallic colour
and the well will never dry with KY,
spread from arsehole to breakfast like _______
Class?
I got class, my website deems it so
“It would be my absolute pleasure to welcome you into my
wonderful world, filled with all things naughty and nice.”
oh make me over, please!
I lie
on my back, my side, my stomach… and my face is covered
69 divine and women line up!
I’m not exclusive… smile ; )
sad and lonely is universally applied, like my eyeliner
smudged and blurred
obscured from most
I provide a service, the hostess with the most(est)
and fine wine will have you spellbound!
they line up
I spread em’
in a downtown apartment with a sea view
on Fur-Lined avenue – not!
my un-inhibited wide-on, exhibited
and the 26th floor, awaits you but
I am not for free
never for free
I am a Lady of the Night
who shines in the face of adversity
with trust issues and insecurities like the rest of us
I am not blinded by earthly needs by fools
I wake up,
I put on my make-up
I dance to my own tune
and pay the bills
© 2007 Jodine Derena Butler. All Rights Reserved
Exerpt reprinted on Quilt, Melbourne Festival of Sex Workers, 2012
Yes. I prefer to be transparent but it took me a long time. I had to be in a place where I felt secure in my identity. I don’t see work now but I would go back if I needed too. Its an interesting vocation. I reslly enjoyed my work. Jx
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Interesting and daring. Daring is always good.
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Thank you Vicki! I have written a few lines of this poem on a square for the Sex Worker Quilt Project being exhibited at the Melbourne Festival of Sex Workers this year! Glad the poem resonates with you. Jx
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I can speak from experience that your poem reflects the reality. Love it xx
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Thanks for correcting my spelling and grammar!!!Mx
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Thank you. I am currently using an excerpt from this poem, on a sex worker quilt project to be displayed in Melbourne later this year. Jx
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I think you might have succeeded!! God you are scary and my God, you’re good!! Mx
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Phew, very fierce, J.
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Yes…I wanted to write something that captured the life of a sex worker… Jx
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