Names in Ink
“‘Marriage is one thing... but a tattoo is permanent!’”
From a Reader’s Digest anecdote
I saw a man with four tattoos:
One “Karla” underneath the place
Of paint rolled in three streaks of blues,
Each trace of exes to erase.
When Karla saw herself replace
The women’s names inscribed in ink
(Cassandra, Jessica, and Grace),
I wonder if she stopped to think...
One day, their hearts won’t be in sync,
And his commitment’s not too strong.
Hence Karla’s name within a blink
Will be rolled out and moved along.
Too few these days can see the wrong
Or what the world is forced to lose
When marriage doesn’t last as long
As people’s names in old tattoos.
Joshua C. Frank
