Tattoos


 

The doctor has a tattoo
on the side, and another
on that long leg,
and maybe others
I don't know, about a time
which is no longer mine.

Ideograms. Signed at night
when the skin softens
waiting for dawn.
Coded messages
more for himself than for others,
looking for meaning
for every action, for all
emotions and falls.

One day they will be
discolored scratches
on withered, aged skin,
testimonies of dreams
never made, crumpled
like his evil look,
like his wasted years,
like his life
unresolved.



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