photo by joel muiz on Unsplash. Used with permission
Too Much Information
Substantiation of your sex appeal is shown in your tattoos—
illustrative options in so many different hues.
It’s true that your charisma is there for all to see,
inscribed upon your body be it thigh or calf or knee.
If I might take a moment, I could read you like a book.
A hieroglyphic record in your body’s every nook.
The snakes around your biceps and thorns circling your neck,
beer bottles on your forearms and the joined hearts on each pec.
All the ladies of your past hidden here and there.
Mandy on your wrist and Susan nestled in your hair.
Lucy on your pinkie and Maxine upon your shoulder—
might you regret them later as you get a little older?
That tear that’s sliding down your cheek, the stars beside your eyes,
that naked lady on your neck—do you think it wise?
I’m thinking of your grandchildren, for when your shirt you doff,
you won’t have any secrets, for your stories won’t come off.
Prompt words for today are charisma, tattoo, options, substantiation and moment.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I always wonder about people who enshrine their girl or boyfriends on their skin. When it all goes sideways, do they X it out?
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Brilliant. A great satire on a modern folly. To each his own, but for me it spoils the view.
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Thanks, Kristian. Strange group of words to work with. The poem just sort of grew out of the need to use them all!
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That’s what I find great about these word prompts, if sometimes forces your mind down roads it may not instinctively tread. 🙂
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I absolutely agree, Kristian. I am addicted.
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Brilliant was my thought, too
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Thanks, Derrick. You always have a complimentary word to say..
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Hahaha! I will never get the appeal of “body art.”
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Nor I. I have seen very few examples of it that I thought were beautiful. They are so often just overdone. Too many and ill-placed.
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Living in South Florida, we see those all too often, as people are very scantily dressed all year round. My guess is that it’s the only way they know of expressing their individuality. The way it is going, I believe their grandchildren will be even more extensively “decorated.”
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I’ve heard that the ink eventually breaks down and goes into the bloodstream and becomes dangerous. Hope this isn’t true.
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Don’t know anything about that, but nowadays tattoo parlors advertise “removable designs.”
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