evidence by Charles Bukowski

[catpaws.livejournal.com]

whores and great poets should
avoid one another:
their professions are dangerously
similar:
from the Roman Empire to our
Atomic Age
there have been about an equal
number of whores and
poets
with the authorities continually
trying to outlaw
the former
and ignore the latter
-- which tells you
how dangerous
poetry
really
is.

In Your Face by Samuel Menashe

[another-dexter.livejournal.com]

Eyes that spurn yet invite
Like spikes in the sunlight
Of Manhattan's high rise-
Babylon's ladies outshine
Daughters of Jerusalem
Zion is no easy climb