I am a Stripper

I am a stripper.
Yes. I take off my clothes for you pleasure, and as much as you know I love it! It’s a party every time I work! Every time I give a dance it turns me on so much I don’t know what to do with myself! If you couldn’t tell there was sarcasm oozing out of those last two sentences I think you should come to my club and let me rape your wallet. If you could taste the bitterness this is for you. I am just a regular girl dealing with unusual things. I am trying to make it just as much as you are I just was dealt a 2 - 7 unsuited, while most of you have suited connectors ( poker reference if you don’t get too bad figure it out.) We all have to hustle to make it in this world and we all do what we need to do to survive. My survival is through the pathetic, lonely men, inside the castle of make believe. Or this prison in my eyes.
I don’t think anyone out there can look, and actually see, the reality inside of this mirage. It is so well constructed for you entertainment. You see us all walking around half naked and eager for your attention but, when we leave and go through those curtains into the dressing room, the masks come off. What you see is many sad eyes of broken girls trying to camouflage their loneliness with makeup and a fake smile.
I am one of these girls but I don’t feel as broken or lost as they do. I am different I am special. I am me. (I may have had to say that out loud just to believe it again.)
It's so hard to work in this business when you want to be respectful of yourself. None of these girls have ever known respect so how can they know how to respect themselves? There are so many souls that have died in this place. So many girls with so much to offer but no where to go so many girls who were one person before they stripped but once they took off their clothes it ripped there heart from their chests. I don’t understand how or why this has job has the ability to change a persons in such a manner but it happens every day. I just cross my fingers it will never spread into me like a disease. I wish it were different. I wish my job was an art like it should be. I wish people could be entertained by the female figure and the way a stripper can float across the stage. The strip club has lost so much of it artistic side I feel like it is such an art but no one appreciates art there anymore, it's more about how much you can get for a dollar.