stain life | poetry

poem

Dec 19, 2023

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tattoos stain the limbs 
meet the torso.
hollow thoughts express
ink shapes,
coal black imprints.

abstract shapes 
of the not enough crowd,
honest one liners
licked by tongue
once bit by the teeth 
of another skin.

tattoos stain the body 
and the mind
and remain, until fading 
like the blank face 
expressions of those 
spoken to in a foreign language.…

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