I want to lick your tattoos
the way greedy children
nurse their lollipops
big, round, multi-colored swirls
radiant like a sunflower
big enough to eclipse
the sun
mystical
sacred
Mayan eschatology
blot out
the sun
until
all the black ink
on your body
is lapped up
onto my tongue
Look there in the jungle
Stela
it’s a glyph of me with my
lollipop
the lollipop
looks like your tattoo
and that’s
me
counting down the
end of
days

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