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# Black and White
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/black-and-white/
- Published: 2022-09-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: She walked across the room, a feral cat, a gait to make a man weak at the knees. Her bodycon sheer black, and she, all that, took out a cigarette, and gestured: please.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

She walked across the room, a feral cat,  
a gait to make a man weak at the knees.  
Her bodycon sheer black, and she, all that,  
took out a cigarette, and gestured: please.

I fumbled for a lighter, hands unsteady.  
No luck -- pants pocket jingling with loose change.  
The desk's top drawer came to the rescue. Ready,  
she bent her face towards me. "Something strange",

she said, a kitten toying with a mouse,  
"is happening, my husband's not been home.  
Can you find out if he's a cheat, the louse.  
Please bring him back, wherever he may roam".

Recovering, I nodded, lit cigar.  
I should have known it will be a noir.

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**Author notes:** iambic pentameter (sonnet) format