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Voyeur
Steady days and vagrant nights pull this way and that.
By day a busy beaver, midnights a roving cat
haunting every low-life bar, spending bucks and time,
trying to find that side of life apart from the sublime.
Dipping into shadows. Edging around the slime
of the seamier pleasures. Contemplating crime.
Eying dangerous companions but staying self-contained.
All dangerous encounters simply mimed and feigned.
Flirting with the dark side, but reined in by the light,
only skirting stealthily the pleasures of the night.
(Photo for illustrative purposes only. In no way is the poem really about the person pictured!) The prompt words today were vagrant, range, slime and haunting.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/01/24/rdp-thursday-vagrant/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/01/24/fowc-with-fandango-range/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/01/24/your-daily-word-prompt-slime-january-24-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/01/24/haunting/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I like your photo disclaimer! 😀 Love the first two lines in particular.
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I keep writing partial comments, and we can’t edit. I love the first two lines of your POEM in particular, as it relates to the POEM. 🙂 I like your photo disclaimer in general. oy
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Thanks, M. I don’t know why they won’t let us edit comments. Same thing happens to me.
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What a character, and how well depicted! Judy: is it “seamier” or “steamier”?
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seamier..
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He’d like to be steamy, but alas, he is just seamy.
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Ah… I like your nuancing, as always.
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Definitely evokes the whole feel of it.
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