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Jon Tobias
Poems
Feb 2013
Tattoo
Black flakes fall from my side like
Charred skin
Shapely scars
Poetry mostly
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt… so it goes”
This hip don’t lie
Of all the scar-stories this body tells
I like poetry the best
Though the ones I didn’t pay for
Are more poetic maybe
Their stories longer
A journey
Across the throat
Chest horizon
Knuckle toothed
This body once holie
Now healed
Inked in poetry
Now holy
Like charred skin
Stained black
Falling
from my side
I think I am taking that Walt Whitman line a little too seriously. "And your body shall be a great poem." Another poetry tattoo.
Written by
Jon Tobias
San Diego
(San Diego)
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