Black script lettering tattoo of a four-line rhyming poem across the upper back, close to the shoulder blade.

Four-line poem script on upper back

Lettering · Back · Black and grey · Photo

A photograph of four lines of black cursive script tattooed across the upper back, close to the shoulder blade. The lines read as a light-hearted poem, with the final line set on its own and the text is sharp and evenly weighted against the skin. The background shows a bright pink wall with pinned posters, and only the back and shoulder are in frame.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Carol, I am writing this on the back of a laminated menu at the Sandy Hollow Diner, Route 62, because the pen on the counter has given up and so has the waitress. Roses are red, I wrote on a napkin, and then I looked out of the window and there were no roses, only a great deal of cactus and a dog called Pat asleep under a lorry. I have decided that roses are red in principle.

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My name's Dave, which I thought you should have in writing in case the postcard I sent in March got lost somewhere between here and Ohio. I was going to tell you the poem was about you, but the truth is it was about the cactus, and the cactus is not much of a romantic.

This poem makes no sense, Denise says, reading over my shoulder with a slice of pie balanced on one arm. She has never once lied to me about my handwriting, which is why I am choosing to trust her now.

Microwave. That is where I was going with it. The microwave in the corner gave a ping just as I reached the rhyme I wanted, and I have been staring at the word ever since, the way you stare at a sign you know is pointing somewhere. I am going to eat the pie while it is hot, and you are not here to tell me to slow down. Love, Dave.