On a striptease scene in a made-for-TV-movie

Jaco Fouché

If after hours the spot could shine on seated and slope-shouldered men
And the women, in a perfect world or supposition, were truly alive
And well, while firmly playing bit parts and doing sultry or stubborn walk-ons,
Maybe heel-tripping slightly, late at night in those hollow masculine dives

Where the leg swivels on the slipping sole and the red mouth pouts in contempt
More often than in teasing, would there still be drama left to play out into the
Naked club? Would there be sense enough left in the brittle hours men engage
To feel like rude contented boys poring over the dirty pictures of their youth?

Women rise in sad relief at night, to call for last rounds and final twirls
About a stage with poles and powder on the floor and fed-up girls
As lights fade out now, and brazen music gains a firm and final hold
On the last drunken manly mind, on the last paying soul.

LitNet: 26 November 2004

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