Kitty. Sixteen ,5′ 11″, White, Prostitute
Kitty. Sixteen ,5′ 11″, White, Prostitute - meaning Summary
Commodified Youth and Irony
The poem presents a terse, catalogued portrait of "Kitty," a sixteen-year-old prostitute described by measurements and labels. It compresses objectification, transactional sex, and public moral judgment into ironic, unsettling images—softness linked with Death, staged innocence, and commodified youth. The speaker balances dark humor and clinical detachment to expose how society reduces a young person to a marketable body and stereotype while hinting at underlying vulnerability and social complicity.
Read Complete Analyses“kitty”. sixteen,5′ 11″, white, prostitute. ducking always the touch of must and shall, whose slippery body is Death’s littlest pal, skilled in quick softness. Unspontaneous. cute, the signal perfume of whose unrepute focusses in the sweet slow animal bottomless eyes importantly banal, Kitty. a whore. Sixteen you corking brute amused from time to time by clever drolls fearsomely who do keep their sunday flower. The babybreasted broad “kitty” twice eight —beer nothing,the lady’ll have a whiskey-sour— whose least amazing smile is the most great common divisor of unequal souls.
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