I don't like it yet, and feel it needs to be changed and added to; bleh. Thoughts?
Ink
So this is what permanence feels like -
to outline the image in my skin,
it seems a scalpel must be drawn,
slowly, across my flesh.
Will this really last forever?
I ask myself as the bone
in my shoulder shudders
under the jackhammer rhythm of the needle.
Now a hook, tugging
at the nerves in my spine;
it seems a wonder
that I won't be able to feel
the ink. Something feels cool
and wet where the scribbling
of a dull razor isn't; blood,
blue dye, I'm not sure.
I roll my shoulders when he's done,
a sunburn of color across my back.
So this is what permanence feels like -
to outline the image in my skin,
it seems a scalpel must be drawn,
slowly, across my flesh.
Will this really last forever?
I ask myself as the bone
in my shoulder shudders
under the jackhammer rhythm of the needle.
Now a hook, tugging
at the nerves in my spine;
it seems a wonder
that I won't be able to feel
the ink. Something feels cool
and wet where the scribbling
of a dull razor isn't; blood,
blue dye, I'm not sure.
I roll my shoulders when he's done,
a sunburn of color across my back.
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