Love Tat

[tectak]

Thinking that he was the one
—although now a long time gone—
you had “Tommy Ray” splayed,
close over the entrance to the “Y”.

A green metallic blob gone painfully wrong
on the inside of the thigh.

“It could be a dragon?”

Then for kicks, at the waist, in back,
—you wonder why you had him scrawl—
“Big Mac Attack”
…with an arrow pointing down?

Hurt less at the time—but more now
from the lack of clear thought—
because you’d blown a hundred beforehand,
so that you, and your three closest friends
could get extremely high!
All you could do later was shake your head,
and silently ask yourself,
“why, god damn it, why?”
…while at the end of stiff arms you squeezed
your hands into tiny balls of regret.

You’re a Big Girl ain’t cha?
Never let ‘em see you cry,
never let ‘em know that you could die,
from self-inflicted embarrassment,
at this overt display of your best,
better judgement.
They laugh at you and point,
holding their sides and starting to cry.
You pretend to try and smile,
while remembering how you
stupidly waved goodbye
to the last bit of your innocence:
thinking yourself so very clever!

Love is fleeting; tattoos are forever!


©2012 ~Erthona


Note: This one is very raw. Give it a good raking over the coals.
Thankee kindly!

Dale

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Hmm.
Subject matter first. Strains of parental conflict but if not why not? I actually saw a warning in a the window of tattoo parlor which read:
Remember this when in to here you come
What I do for you cannot be undone.
Dragons mate with eagles on you breast?
I that is what you want then be my guest.
You pay me once for what is my endeavor
The money goes....the tattoo lasts forever.
The very young daughter of a friend of mine had her nipples pierced without parental knowledge. They went ape-shit when she told them........then she found she was pregnant. The night she chose to tell her parents we were all there. You could ear the nipple pins drop.

Next.Well. it sounds kinda personal so the normal rules of engagement don't apply. In a structured sense it all hangs on one tack. Disapproval of a foolishly and repeatedly naive personna. Perversely, I feel that another verse would be very acceptable where the subject attempts to justify her stupidity. It could be great fun to write BUT not easy because of the over apparent disapproval unbalancing the tennet of the piece.
Finally, there is, as you will be aware, a prick which snags in this kind of effort. To some, your expressed thoughts will hook the reader....because of empathy. To others, the prick will tear and irritate. There is, I venture, no right or wrong........
Tectak
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