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Feb 2011
the gentle day
Sirs
gives way to sweet night
and we come to give swift pleasures  
Sirs
and the coins you may offer
keep our bodies
but the pleasures we offer
Sirs
the nights we give to you
our contortions and exertions
disfigure us, distort us day and night
Sirs
your Pleasures are our pain
for us the plain and painted yotaka
The yotaka (night hawks) were the lowest class of prostitutes in  hierarchical Edo, Japan.
Raj Arumugam
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Raj Arumugam  Australia
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