Dens of Iniquity

Narrow cobbled streets lined with commerce
Established and up-coming
Hostelries, fish mongers, slaughterhouses and hardware
Rough bricks and mortar
Roofs thatched and windows latched
Each interchange housed a coaching inn
Bed and board for the night
Reasonable rates … fleas included
Wenches of ill repute extra
Payable in advance
Highway robbery legal and elicit
Take you chances … gamble at your own risk
Crime rife … cut-throat and grizzly
Murder, misery and mayhem
Purgatory personified
Pass on through
Keep going
Don’t spare the horses
Your life may well depend on it

[Prompt: Write about a city, real or imagined.]