This Was Shot While Shooting The Red Light Area Of Mumbai, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.
shooting
the last vestige
of womanhood
held captive
in a homeless
cage ..overdone
raunchy once
young now old
hags how they
had aged ..
as they lifted
their skirts
to show
their wares
giving walkers
by come hither
stares ..dark
doomed cubicle
sweaty fetid lair
a creaking cot
a bed bug
infested
mattress
picture of
the last madam
walls weeping
in need of repair
a stale flower
gajra in her hair
for a few measly
battered rupee
her overused
body part
she would
share
a passage
of pain illusions
her living
nightmare
unable to free
herself from
this evil snare
a picture i shot
while outside
the music blared
heena the hijra
led me out
down the stairs
