house of geisha

An invitation to the drifters

Waifs and strays / gay runaways

Come into this house

A temple for rites or wrongs

Passion for safe passage

Let burdens exhale in this sinner’s retreat

A haven of heaven where judgment is vice

The world deemed you shameless

some crucified / twice

Scoured your souls clean / baptized the Jesus out of you

Nigger, dyke, faggot, slut, whore, vixen, victim, hopeless, homeless, insane, guilty

Nameless / blameless / obscene

The burlesque dancers, the striptease heathens, the fools of finesse

The charmers, the rebels, the renegades / the gnomes who write poems

Bad apple seeds / sweet tarts / black hearts

We God’s gang

Come into this house / find beauty for ashes

Claim your fame

@sydsteword