Bitch’s World

I wonder what people say to their kids
about what they see on television

When they're asked,
why there are so many shows about bitches,
do they try and explain,
that it looks like a bitch’s world out there
but really it’s still a rich man’s game

How do you tell a 7-year old kid
it wont be long
till they have a price of their own

Are grown men
with children
in this country
sexually aroused
by girls going wild

That blonde fucking med student
popped a girl in the head at point blank
and the news is telling us
he had a gambling problem

He must’ve been shit at the tables
because he kept all those panties
of the girls he was robbing
&
that’s a bad bet against getting out of this
like a thief in the night

I checked out Craigslist’s massage services
months ago
when I moved to this area

I had expected it to be a little more subtle
like those wanted ads
for Full-Body Massages
in the free weeklies
that say
I’ll suck you off
without typing a word of it

It was so vulgar
pictures of girls
in see-thru panties
or bending over in front of the camera
some also had real headshots
with all the make-up
and the foggy lighting

right next to them in a dirty hotel room
with a pink dildo
playfully at the edge of her lips
like that does anything for anybody

I spent the better part of an hour
going through each one
before swearing off it forever

Big girls, skinny girls, drug addicts,
college-aged white girls, black teens,
a couple of Hispanics
& transsexuals
spread throughout

There was this one I remember
young black girl
over on the left
she was wearing daisy dukes
and showing off her pink slip
but you couldn’t see her face well
so on the right
to compensate
she had a profile picture
taken outside in the summer
sweet, sleepy eyes
giggling girlish grin,
the sun behind her head
a regular snapshot taken
to remember that particular moment

I couldn’t determine whether
the two pictures
were even of the same girl
&
I couldn’t think
what was the worst outcome

It said she worked out of the house
and they wouldn’t be disturbed

I didn’t think then
my god,
one day
someone is going to kill this girl
& it could be anybody
with a laptop and a .38

It could be her father
her boyfriend
a John
a stranger on the street

She will not go out peacefully
she will kick & scream
until she resigns to it
or dribbles in fear
failing to explain why
she would want to hold on
or on what she had left
to barter with

and her body will float up & up
and evaporate into the atmosphere
before being breathed back in
a good honest photo
in the upper-left hand corner
of a news box