Some of the best poems you'll read - Perigee

"Butterface"
by Jason Lee Huskey
She crosses the street with stilettos
staccato on the wet asphalt, her special
undergarments digging creases into her thighs
premature to her genetic endowment. She stands at the
six-and-nine intersect, adjusting her ta-tas for pa-pas
and thirty-dollar blowjobs. Some johns pass her up
as they pull away, thinking she's painted up like
a cop hunting down cheating husbands and dying
fools with no time for the formal, legal prostitution
called romance; but she's no vice snatch. She's painted
that way because God practiced a first-draft abstract
on her canvas, and it got published anyway.
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